SC allows Lalu Prasad to raise plea of prior sanction during trial

The Supreme Court connected Monday (April 13, 2026) allowed Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) main and erstwhile Railway Minister Lalu Prasad to rise his plea of deficiency of anterior authorisation for probe launched against him successful the land-for-jobs scam lawsuit probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) during trial.

A Bench headed by Justice M.M. Sundresh did not intervene to assistance Mr. Prasad interim alleviation successful the signifier of enactment of the trial, but “protected” from appearing successful idiosyncratic astatine the trial.

The apex tribunal said ineligible issues arsenic to whether Section 17A had been indispensable for the CBI earlier maunching into the probe would beryllium based connected the facts of the case, the tribunal said, leaving it for Mr. Prasad’s lawyers instrumentality it up arsenic a crushed of defence successful the proceedings proceedings.