Land-For-Job Case: ED Attaches Assets Worth Over 6 Cr Belonging To Lalu Yadav, Family, And Others

The ED is said to have attached some assets against RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, his family, and others in an alleged land-for-railway jobs scam.

File Photo: Former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and his son incumbent Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav. ( Image Source :PTI )

The Enforcement Directorate on Monday stated that it has attached assets worth over Rs 6 crore belonging to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad's family -- his wife Rabri Devi, daughter Misa Bharti and linked companies -- in connection with its money laundering investigation against them in an alleged land-for-railway jobs scam. A provisional order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) was issued to attach the six immovable assets in Patna, Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) and a four-storey bungalow at D-1088 in the posh New Friends Colony area of south Delhi, the agency stated.

Shiv Kumar Yadav (father-in-law of Smt. Hema Yadav), M/s A B Exports Pvt Ltd and M/s A K Infosystem Pvt Ltd., both companies owned & controlled by family members of Lalu Prasad Yadav under the provisions of PMLA, 2002 in the Railway job for land scam.

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Two land parcels situated at Mahuabagh (Danapur) in Patna have also been attached by the ED, of which one each is owned by former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi.

Also attached is A K Infosystems Pvt Ltd (a company stated to be controlled by Lalu Prasad's family), a land parcel owned by RJD chief's MP daughter Misa Bharti in the Bihta area of Patna as well as a portion of two industrial plots (one plot each registered in the names of Vineet Yadav and Shiv Kumar Yadav, the husband and father-in-law respectively of Lalu Yadav's daughter Hema Yadav) situated in the Sahibabad industrial area of Ghaziabad, as per the nodal agency.

According to the ED,  A B Exports Pvt Ltd is a shell or fake company owned by Lalu Prasad's son and Bihar deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav and Chanda Yadav (another daughter of the RJD chief) and its registered address is the bungalow located in the New Friends Colony area.

All these assets have a combined book value of Rs 6.02 crore, the agency said.

The alleged scam pertains to Lalu Prasad's tenure as the Union railway minister in the UPA-1 government from 2004 to 2009. The ED and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) have claimed that during the period 2004-09, various persons were appointed to Group D positions in various zones of the Indian Railways, and in lieu, the persons concerned transferred their land to the family members of Lalu Prasad.

Lalu Yadav, Rabri Devi, and Tejashwi are among the 17 accused charge-sheeted by the CBI on July 3.

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