Patna/Ranchi: RJD president Lalu Prasad, serving sentence in fodder scam cases, has sought a five-day parole to attend the wedding of his elder son Tej Pratap Yadav later this week, his lawyer and one of his close aides said on Tuesday.

The septuagenarian Lalu, who has been convicted in three fodder scam cases by a special CBI court in Ranchi since December last year, is under treatment at RIMS in Ranchi.

His son, Tej, a sitting MLA and former Bihar minister, will be tying the nuptial knot with Aishwarya Rai, the daughter of RJD legislator Chandrika Rai, on May 12 in Patna.

"We moved an application before the IG (jails) on Monday for parole from May 10 to May 14. We hope that our leader will not be deprived of the opportunity to attend the marriage ceremony of his son, which is an occasion that comes once in a lifetime," RJD national general secretary and MLA Bhola Yadav told PTI over phone.

Bhola is close to the entire Lalu family. He is in Ranchi to help the party chief seek release from custody. When contacted, officials of Birsa Munda Jail in Ranchi said they are looking into the request for Lalu's parole and would take appropriate action.

In Ranchi, Lalu's lawyer, Prabhat Kumar, also corroborated moving an application for parole of the RJD chief for five days (from May 10 to May 14) for attending his son's marriage. Last week, Lalu had moved an application for provisional bail before the Jharkhand High Court which got deferred till May 11 on account of a strike by lawyers. <>Lalu was recently shifted from AIIMS-Delhi to Ranchi after doctors declared him fit. He could not attend Tej's engagement ceremony in Patna on April 18 over which his family had expressed sorrow. 

Tej had posted an emotional tweet "miss you Papa." PTI