The 21 trunks of documents laden in two trucks were brought to the civil court premises by the CBI officials for filing them in the trial court. Later, CBI special public prosecutor, L R Ansari, filed an application on the submission of documents running into 70,000 pages on which the agency was relying for the prosecution of RJD president, Yadav and Bihar Jan Congress chief patron, Jagannath Mishra, and other accused in the case.

A three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justice G T Nanavati, Justice S P Kurdukar and Justice K T Thomas had on December 4 deferred till December 18 the hearing on petitions of the two former chief ministers and four other accused against a Patna High Court order denyingregular bail to them in the case.

The court had asked the agency to file by December 17 the document on which it had relied upon in support of allegations against the accused. The case relates to fraudulent withdrawals of more than Rs 97 lakh from Deoghar treasury by the State Animal Husbandry Department officials through ``forged and fake'' bills.

Yadav and Mishra, besides former Bihar ministers, C P Verma, Vidya Sagar Nishad, RJD MLA R K Rana - are among others who are lodged in judicial custody in Beur jail in this case since October 28 last.