NEW DELHI: In a significant growth, the Enforcement Directorate on Friday carried out raids at Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav’s Delhi residence in reference to the land-for-jobs case. The central probe company can also be conducting raids at 15 different places in Bihar in reference to the land-for-job rip-off wherein the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had lately grilled former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi and former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad.
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Enforcement Directorate is conducting searches at a number of places in Delhi and Bihar, in reference to alleged land for job rip-off: Sources
Recently, CBI questioned RJD chief Lalu Yadav within the case in Delhi.
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The ED motion is being carried out on the premise of the FIR filed by the CBI in reference to the case. In its case, the CBI has alleged that it was discovered throughout the investigation that the accused in conspiracy with the then GM and CPO of Central Railways engaged individuals as substitutes in lieu of land both of their title or within the title of shut kinfolk of Lalu Prasad`s household.
The CBI has earlier registered a case in opposition to RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, his spouse Rabri Devi, their two daughters and 15 others. “During the period 2004-2009 Yadav had obtained pecuniary advantages in the form of transfer of landed property in the name of his family members in lieu of appointment of Substitutes in Group `D` Post in different zones of railways,” the official mentioned.
It us alleged that a lot of residents of Patna themselves or by means of their members of the family offered and gifted their land within the state capital in favour of the Yadavs and a non-public firm managed by Lalu Prasad and his household they usually had been additionally concerned within the switch of such immovable properties.
“No commercial or any public discover was issued for such appointment of substitutes in Zonal Railways, but the appointees who had been residents of Patna had been appointed as Substitutes in numerous Zonal Railways situated at Mumbai, Jabalpur, Kolkata, Jaipur and Hazipur,” the CBI mentioned.
“In continuation of this modus operandi, about 1,05,292 sq. feet of land, immovable properties situated at Patna were acquired by Yadav and his family members through five sales deeds and two gift deeds, showing the payment made to seller in cash in most of the land transfer,” the CBI has alleged.
The CBI case relies on accusations that Lalu Yadav and his members of the family purchased land at low cost charges in change for jobs throughout his tenure as Union Railway Minister from 2004 to 2009.Â
Besides the veteran Bihar politician, his spouse and his daughters, the CBI FIR, registered in May 2022, has named 12 different individuals who allegedly obtained jobs in change for land. In July final yr, the CBI arrested Lalu Yadav’s aide and former Officer on Special Duty (OSD) Bhola Yadav in reference to the case.
