Priya Aditi
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav, ailing veteran politician Lalu Prasad Yadav, and former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi, among others, were named in a land-for-job scam chargesheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Rouse Avenue Court of Delhi in the Land for Job alleged scam case.
In the Land for Job scam case, the chargesheet has been filed against former Union Minister of Railways Lalu Prasad Yadav, former Chief Minister of Bihar Rabri Devi, Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, and several others.
CBI, via its Special Public Prosecutor Advocate DP Singh, notified the Rouse Avenue Court of Delhi that a new chargesheet has been submitted in the case, despite the fact that a chargesheet had already been filed, because the alleged crime was committed using a different modus operandi.
The court was also informed that sanctions against Lalu and three others are forthcoming.
Lalu Prasad Yadav is accused of giving railway employment to candidates or their relatives in exchange for free or discounted plots of land. The investigation began two years ago, but the case was not registered until last year.
In May 2022, the CBI filed a new case against him and his family members, accusing them of accepting land from aspirants in exchange for railway employment from 2008 to 2009, when he was the Union railway minister in the UPA government.
During this period, Lalu Prasad Yadav was released on bail in a case involving a fodder scam for which he had been convicted by a special court.
What is the Land for Job scam case?
During the years 2004-2009, Lalu Prasad Yadav allegedly received monetary benefits in the form of the transfer of immovable property into the names of his family members in exchange for the appointment of’substitutes’ to Group D posts in various railway zones, according to the CBI.
The candidates were hired within three days of their application in “excessive haste” by railroad officials. Later, when the “individuals themselves or their family members transferred their land”, they were also regularized.
A number of Patna residents or their family members purportedly sold or donated their land in the state capital to Lalu Prasad’s family members and a private company controlled by the former chief minister’s family.
It was alleged that Rabri Devi and her daughters Misa Bharti and Hema Yadav made the transfers using deeds. The CBI asserted that no advertisement or public notice was issued for these appointments, despite the fact that Patna residents were appointed as substitutes in Mumbai, Jabalpur, Kolkata, Jaipur, and Hajipur.
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In continuation of this modus operandi, approximately 1,05,292 square feet of immovable properties located in Patna were acquired by Yadav and his family members via five sales deeds and two gift deeds, with cash payments made to the vendor in the majority of land transfers, according to the CBI.
