Land for job scam case: Former railway minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) nationwide president Lalu Prasad Yadav, his spouse and former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi and 14 others reached at Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court at present (March 15) in reference to a case associated to the alleged land-for-job scam.
The case pertains to alleged appointments made in the railways in return for land parcels gifted or bought to Prasad’s household when he was the minister of railways between 2004 and 2009. The CBI in its cost sheet alleged that irregular appointments had been made in the railways, violating the laid down norms and procedures of Indian Railways for recruitment.
It alleged that as a quid professional quo, the candidates straight or by their quick relations and members of the family bought land to the members of the family of RJD chief Prasad, then railway minister, at extremely discounted charges as much as one-fifth of the prevailing market charges.
Summon to Lalu & his household:
Special decide Geetanjali Goel had on February 27 (Monday) issued summons to the accused individuals, together with Prasad’s daughter Misa Bharti, and directed them to look earlier than the courtroom on March 15.
“A perusal of the cost sheet and the paperwork and materials on file prima facie reveals fee of offences beneath Section 120B (legal conspiracy), learn with sections 420 (dishonest), 467 (forgery of worthwhile safety, will, and many others.), 468 (forgery for function of dishonest) and 471 (utilizing cast doc as real) of the IPC and numerous sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act. Accordingly, cognizance is taken of the stated offences,” the decide had stated.
The decide had famous that the cost sheet was filed with out arrest in respect of the accused individuals besides one who’s on bail at current. In July 2022, the CBI arrested Bhola Yadav, who was the officer on particular responsibility (OSD) to Lalu Prasad when he was the railway minister, in the case.
The cost sheet was filed on October 10 final yr for offences of legal conspiracy and corruption in opposition to 16 accused individuals. The last report additionally named former normal supervisor of Central Railway Sowmya Raghavan, former CPO Railways Kamal Deep Mainrai, seven aspirants appointed as substitutes and 4 personal people.
According to the cost sheet, the case was registered pursuant to the end result of a preliminary inquiry in opposition to Lalu Prasad and others.
HERE is LIST of 16 accused individuals:
- Lalu Prasad Yadav
- Rabri Devi
- Dr Misa Bharti
- Raj Kumar Singh (substitute)
- Mithlesh Kumar (substitute)
- Ajay Kumar (substitute)
- Sanjay Kumar (substitute)
- Dharamendra Kumar (substitute)
- Vikas Kumar (substitute)
- Abhishek Kumar (substitute)
- Ravindra Ray (personal particular person)
- Kiran Devi (personal particular person)
- Akhileshwar Singh (personal particular person)
- Ramashish Singh (personal particular person)
- Kamal Deep Manrai then CPO Central Railway
- Sowmya Raghvan then GM Central Railway
What was talked about in FIR:
It was alleged in the FIR that some individuals, though residents of Patna in Bihar, had been appointed as substitutes in Group-D posts through the interval 2004-2009 in totally different zones of the railways positioned in Mumbai, Jabalpur, Kolkata, Jaipur and Hajipur and in lieu thereof, the people themselves or their members of the family transferred their land in the title of members of the family of Prasad and an organization, AK Infosystems Private Limited, which was subsequently taken over by the members of the family of Prasad.
It was additional alleged that about 1,05,292 sq. toes land located in Patna was acquired by the members of the family of Prasad from these individuals by 5 sale deeds and two reward deeds and in many of the sale deeds, fee to the sellers was talked about to be paid in money.
The worth of the land as per present circle price was about Rs 4.39 crore, the CBI alleged. The land was straight bought by the members of the family of Prasad from the sellers at a price decrease than the prevalent circle price, the CBI stated, including that the prevalent market worth of the land was a lot larger than the circle price.
It was alleged that the due process and pointers issued by the railway authority for the appointment of substitutes weren’t adopted and afterward, their providers had additionally been regularised.
(With companies inputs)
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