Land-for-jobs rip-off: The Enforcement Directorate has arrested an alleged affiliate of RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and his son Tejashwi Yadav in reference to a cash laundering probe into the alleged land-for-jobs rip-off case, official sources mentioned on Saturday (November 11). Amit Katyal, the ‘affiliate’, was detained by the central company yesterday and was arrested after questioning, they added. He is anticipated to be produced earlier than an area courtroom wherein the ED will search his custody for interrogation. Sources mentioned Katyal was evading the company’s summons for questioning for about two months.
Delhi High Court had lately rejected his plea to quash the ED summons in opposition to him in the identical case. The ED had raided the premises of Katyal in March when it had additionally lined the premises of Lalu Prasad, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, his sisters and others.
According to the ED, Katyal is a “close associate” of Lalu in addition to a former director of AK Infosystems Private Limited. AK Infosystems Private Limited is allegedly a “beneficiary company” within the case and its registered deal with is a residential constructing in south Delhi’s New Friends Colony, which was being utilized by Tejashwi Yadav.
The alleged rip-off comes from the time when Lalu was the railway minister within the UPA-1 authorities.
What are the allegations?
It was alleged that a number of folks had been appointed to Group ‘D’ positions in numerous zones of the Indian Railways from 2004 to 2009, and in lieu, they transferred their land to the family members of the then railway minister Lalu Prasad and AK Infosystems Private Limited.
The ED case, filed beneath the felony sections of the PMLA, stems from a grievance lodged by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The CBI had mentioned that no commercial or public discover was issued for the appointment however some residents of Patna had been appointed as substitutes in numerous zonal railways in Mumbai, Jabalpur, Kolkata, Jaipur and Hazipur.
As a quid professional quo, the candidates, instantly or via their fast family members, allegedly offered land to Prasad’s family members at extremely discounted charges, as much as one-fourth to one-fifth of the prevailing market charges, the CBI had alleged.
(With PTI inputs)
