Jharkhand High Court today directed the CBI to file an affidavit, explaining why Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and his aide Shivanand Tiwary had not been arraigned as accused in the fodder scam.

The court of Justice R. R. Prasad was hearing a petition filed by one Mithilesh Kumar Singh who has alleged that despite evidence against Nitish and Tiwary, the CBI had given a clean chit to the duo and not made them accused in the fodder scam cases.

Singh informed the court that he had sought information under Right to Information Act from the CBI on the role of Nitish Kumar and Tiwary in the animal husbandry scam case it is probing.

The CBI had then revealed that there was evidence against both Nitish and Tiwary. The agency claimed Shyam Bihari Sinha, the kingpin of the fodder scam case, paid Rs 1.4 crore to Nitish Kumar during elections and Rs 5 lakh to Tiwary for his daughter's wedding.



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