NEW DELHI: In a serious improvement, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday hooked up the properties of Janata Dal (RJD) Supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav in reference to the land-for-job rip-off. The properties embrace the Yadav household’s properties in Delhi and Patna, which features a residential home in New Buddies Colony.
Central companies just like the CBI and the ED are at present investigating a multi-crore rip-off involving the change of land for jobs within the Indian Railways, with former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Yadav and his members of the family on the Centre.
The companies are probing allegations that a number of folks got Group D jobs within the Indian Railways in change for land value crores in Bihar. Lalu Prasad Yadav, the Railway Minister on the time, alongside along with his members of the family are accused of accepting bribes within the type of land in change for these appointments.
What Is The ‘Land-For-Jobs’ Rip-off About?
The “land-for-jobs” rip-off first got here to mild in 2009 after the brand new UPA authorities got here to energy and Yadav misplaced his place as Union Railway Minister as his social gathering wasn’t a part of the brand new authorities.
The CBI investigation into the rip-off was initiated by the brand new Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee after allegations have been made in opposition to Yadav. The investigation was restarted in September 2021.
Following a preliminary inquiry, the company filed an FIR in 2022 in opposition to Yadav, his spouse and his daughters Misa Bharti and Hema Yadav. The CBI alleged that Yadav and his associates had taken giant quantities of land from individuals who have been looking for jobs within the Indian Railways. In accordance with the allegations, the land was given to Yadav’s members of the family and shut associates.
The investigation additionally revealed that most of the appointments made by Yadav’s workplace have been based mostly on favouritism and nepotism, and never on advantage. The CBI claimed that Yadav had misused his place because the Railway Minister to profit his members of the family and associates.
Within the FIR, the CBI alleged that between 2004 and 2009, a number of residents of Patna have been appointed as substitutes for varied Group-D posts. These posts had no commercials and the appointments have been in opposition to norms and procedures for recruitment. These folks got jobs in numerous zones of the railways situated in Mumbai, Jabalpur, Kolkata, Jaipur and Hajipur.
The CBI accused the Yadav household of buying over 1 lakh sq ft of land by way of the rip-off at a value of simply Rs 26 lakh, regardless of the truthful worth of the land being over Rs 4.39 crore.
The CBI charged Yadav and his household underneath Sections 120B (prison conspiracy), 420 (dishonest), 467 (forgery of helpful safety, will, and many others.), 468 (forgery for the aim of dishonest) and 471 (utilizing a solid doc as real) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and varied sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
