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 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 in December last year, is ailing and currently undergoing treatment at RIMS hospital in the Jharkhand capital.

His son Tej Pratap Yadav, a sitting MLA and former state minister, will be getting married with Aishwarya Rai, daughter of party legislator Chandrika Rai, on Saturday, May 12, in Patna.

"We moved an application before the IG, jail, 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.

Officials of Birsa Munda jail in Ranchi said they were looking into the request for Lalu's parole and would take an appropriate action.

In Ranchi, Lalu's lawyer Prabhat Kumar also corroborated moving application for parole of incarcerated 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.

The RJD chief was recently shifted from AIIMS Delhi to Ranchi after doctors their declared him fit.

He could not attend the engagement ceremony of Tej Pratap in Patna on April 18 over which his family had expressed sorrow.

Tej Pratap had posted an emotional tweet: "Miss you Papa."