India, July 14 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to cancel the bail granted to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav in the fodder scam cases, holding that it would not be appropriate to interfere with his liberty after six years. Instead, the court directed that the pending criminal appeals be expedited and requested the Jharkhand High Court to decide them, preferably within six months.

A bench of justices MM Sundresh and Prasanna B Varale dismissed the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) challenge to the Jharkhand High Court orders suspending Yadav's sentence and granting him bail, observing that the passage of time since the grant of bail weighed against disturbing the arrangement.

"We are not inclined to inte...