The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday filed its first charge sheet in the railways land-for-jobs linked money laundering case, naming former Bihar CM Rabri Devi and her MP daughter Misa Bharti among others, PTI hsas reported citing its official sources.
RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s another daughter Hema Yadav, a “close associate” of the Yadav family Amit Katyal, railway employee and beneficiary Hridayanand Chaudhary, two firms A K Infosystems Pvt. Ltd. and A B Exports Pvt. Ltd., through their common director Shariqul Bari, have also been named in the charge sheet.
The complaint arraying has been filed before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Delhi and the court has listed the matter to be heard on January 16, the report said.
Katyal was arrested in this case by the ED in November last year while Lalu Prasad Yadav was summoned by the agency but is yet to depose. However, his son and Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav has deposed once before the agency. He has been asked to appear again before it.
The scam pertains to the period when Lalu was the Railway Minister in the UPA-1 government. It is alleged that from 2004 to 2009, several people were appointed to Group “D” positions in various zones of the Indian Railways and in lieu, these people transferred their land to the family members of the then Railway Minister Prasad and a linked company named A K Infosystems Private Limited.
