Charges : Fodder scam, trial incomplete.
Jagannath Mishra was born in 1937 in Bihar. He was a professor Economics and has done Ph. D in the field of Economics. He is the younger brother of Former Union Cabinet Railway Minister Late Lalit Narayan Mishra .
Jagannath Mishra has been charged of corruption in fodder scam, once claimed as the most infamous scam in India. Jagannath Mishra, who served his first stint as the chief minister of Bihar in the mid-1970s, was the earliest chief minister to be accused of knowing involvement in the scam.
On June 23, 1997, the CBI filed chargesheets against Laloo Yadav, Jagannath Mishra and 54 other co-accused. Jagannath Mishra had been permitted bail in June 1997, and avoided judicial remand when Laloo was first detained in July 1997. However, he was taken into custody on 16 September of the same year. He was freed on bail on 13 October but then remanded again, at the same time as Laloo, on October 28, 1998, when he was kept at the same guest house as Laloo, and later shifted to Beur jail along with him. Mishra was freed on bail on December 18, but then rearrested in a different fodder scam case on 7 June 2000.