Land for job scam: CBI files chargesheet against 16 including Lalu Yadav, wife Rabri Devi

By  India Blooms News Service   Oct 07, 2022

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed a chargesheet in the alleged job scam during Rashtriya Janata Dal patriarch Lalu Prasad Yadavs tenure as Railway Minister in the Congress-led UPA government, media reports said.

The CBI filed the chargesheet in the 10-year-old scam against 16 people, including Lalu Yadav and his wife Rabri Devi, both former Bihar chief ministers, in a Delhi court.

On May 18, the central investigating agency had filed an FIR naming the husband-wife, their two daughters Misa Bharti and Hema Yadav, and 12 people who got jobs in the Indian Railways.

Most of them are out on bail.

The CBI has alleged that over 1 lakh square feet of land in Patna by transferred to Lalu Yadavs family in return for jobs in the railways.

The jobs for land scam comes three months after the CBI arrested Lalu Yadavs aide Bhola Yadav, a close aide of Lalu, who was Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to the then railway minister between 2005 and 2009, reported NDTV.

According to the chargesheet, the candidates were initially inducted as substitutes in Group D positions in undue haste by railway officials just within three days of applying, it added.

They were later absorbed as regular employees after the individuals themselves or their family members transferred their land, the CBI has alleged.

According to the agency, the land transfers were made through sale deeds in the name of Rabri Devi and the two daughters.