New Delhi: Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday (March 9, 2023) slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and mentioned that it’s following within the footsteps of the Congress in utilizing probe businesses to hold out “political raids”. Replying to a reporter’s query in regards to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) questioning Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav and his spouse Rabri Devi and issuing summons to his son and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, Akhilesh mentioned that the saffron occasion will meet the “same fate” because the Congress.Â
The Congress, when it was in energy, used the Enforcement Directorate (ED), CBI, and Income Tax division to conduct raids on a number of political leaders within the nation, the previous Uttar Pradesh chief minister instructed reporters.
Central probe businesses just like the CBI, ED, and Income Tax have been working on the BJP authorities’s behest, he added.
“The BJP is doing nothing new by following the same path. If Congress has been today razed to the ground, the BJP will meet the same fate,” Yadav mentioned.Â
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Rs 1 crore seized, Rs 600 crore detected in proceeds of crime in raids in opposition to Lalu Prasad’s household: EDÂ
With Lalu Prasad and his household going through an ire over the alleged land-for-jobs rip-off, the ED on Saturday mentioned it seized Rs one crore in “unaccounted cash” and detected proceeds of crime value Rs 600 crore after raids in opposition to them in a associated cash laundering case. The company mentioned it’s suspected that an enormous quantity of proceeds of crime was infused into buying a home in New Friends Colony in south Delhi that Prasad’s son Tejashwi was utilizing as his residential property.
The home, which was among the many areas raided on Friday when Yadav was staying there, was proven to have been acquired at a price of a mere Rs 4 lakh whereas the current market worth is roughly Rs 150 crore, the company claimed.
An investigation is underway to unearth extra investments made on behalf of Prasad’s household and their associates in numerous sectors, together with actual property, the ED mentioned in an announcement.
“Searches resulted in the recovery of unaccounted cash of Rs 1 crore, foreign currency including USD 1,900, 540 gms gold bullion and more than 1.5 kg of gold jewellery worth about Rs1.25 crore,” the probe company mentioned
“Several other incriminating documents including various property documents, sale deeds, etc. Held in the names of family members (of Lalu Prasad) and benamidaars indicating illegal accretion of huge land bank and electronic devices,” it mentioned.
It mentioned the raids resulted within the “detection of proceeds of crime amounting to about Rs 600 crore at this point of time which is in the form of immovable properties of Rs 350 crore and transactions of Rs 250 crore routed through various benamidaars”.
Making a selected point out of Tejashwi Yadav, the ED mentioned the property located at D-1088, New Friends Colony in south Delhi is an unbiased 4-storied bungalow registered within the title of A B Exports Private Limited and is being utilized by Tejashwi Yadav as his residential premises.
This firm has been known as a “beneficiary firm” on this case and is “owned and controlled” by Tejashwi Yadav and his household, the ED mentioned.
This home was proven to have been acquired at a price of a mere Rs 4 lakh whereas the current market worth is roughly Rs 150 crore, the company added.
Meanwhile, Tejashwi Yadav was known as for questioning on Saturday by the CBI within the case however he didn’t seem and sought a contemporary date citing private causes, officers mentioned.
The company had lately additionally quizzed Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi within the case.
It is alleged that individuals got employment within the railways in return for land parcels gifted or bought at low cost charges to the Yadav household and its associates throughout Lalu’s tenure because the railway minister within the UPA authorities from 2004 to 2009.
No commercial or public discover was issued for the appointment however some residents of Patna have been appointed as substitutes in several zonal railways positioned in Mumbai, Jabalpur, Kolkata, Jaipur, and Hazipur, the CBI has alleged.
As a quid professional quo, the candidates, immediately or by means of their fast members of the family, allegedly bought land to the members of the family of Prasad at extremely discounted charges, as much as one-fourth to one-fifth of the prevailing market charges.
