The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed a conclusive chargesheet in opposition to former Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and 77 different accused within the land for job case. This chargesheet additionally implicates 38 candidates. The CBI knowledgeable the court docket that the sanction from the competent authority remains to be awaited. Particular CBI Decide Vishal Gogne has scheduled the matter for consideration on July 6, information company ANI reported.
Beforehand, on Could 29, the court docket had directed the CBI to file its conclusive chargesheet, expressing displeasure over the delay regardless of ample time given.
Lalu Prasad Yadav and his members of the family, together with his spouse Rabri Devi and son Tejaswi Yadav, are named as accused on this rip-off. On October 4, 2023, the court docket granted bail to those distinguished figures regarding a contemporary chargesheet within the alleged rip-off.
In keeping with the CBI, the second chargesheet names 17 accused, together with the then Union Minister of Railways, his spouse, son, the then Normal Supervisor of West Central Railways (WCR), two Chief Personnel Officers (CPOs) of WCR, non-public people, and a non-public firm, ANI reported.
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Land For Job Rip-off Case
The investigation revealed that in 2004-2009, the then Union Minister of Railways obtained pecuniary benefits by the switch of landed property within the names of his members of the family in trade for appointing substitutes in Group “D” posts throughout varied railway zones. Allegedly, no public discover or commercial was issued for these appointments, but candidates from Patna had been employed in Mumbai, Jabalpur, Kolkata, Jaipur, and Hazipur.
In keeping with ANI’s report, CBI said that searches had been performed at a number of places, together with Delhi and Bihar. It was discovered that the minister conspired with associates and members of the family to accumulate land parcels located in key places. This was finished by providing Group D employment within the railways to candidates who, in flip, transferred their land to the minister’s members of the family or a non-public firm managed by them.
The accused collected purposes and paperwork by associates, forwarding them to West Central Railway for processing. The Normal Managers, influenced by the accused, accredited these engagements, the report said. The investigation additionally revealed that candidates had been initially engaged as substitutes and later regularised.
Throughout searches, a tough disk containing lists of engaged candidates was recovered. Additional allegations embody the acquisition of a land parcel within the identify of a non-public firm for Rs. 10.83 lakh in 2007, which was later transferred to the minister’s members of the family at a fraction of its market worth. The entire worth of land parcels owned by the corporate was roughly Rs. 1.77 crore, but it was transferred for a mere Rs. 1 lakh, as per ANI.
An earlier chargesheet was filed on October 7, 2022, in opposition to 16 accused.