Patna: There seems no end to troubles for Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Lalu Prasad’s family.
In a fresh development, Enforcement Directorate (ED) has now issued summons to Rahul Yadav for giving a loan of Rs10 million to his mother-in-law and former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi, wife of incarcerated RJD president Lalu Prasad now sentenced to three-and-a-half years imprisonment in a fodder scam case.
Rahul, who is husband of Lalu’s fourth daughter Ragini Yadav, had reportedly given the loan to his mother-in-law to buy plots of land in Patna, and the ED now wants to know from him the source of this money, reports said.
Yadav is the second son-in-law of Lalu to be summoned for questioning. Earlier, the ED had questioned Lalu’s another son-in-law, Shailesh Kumar, who is husband of couple’s eldest daughter Misa Bharti, a Rajya Sabha Member, in money-laundering case. The case pertains to purchase of alleged tainted assets involving a firm, Ms Mishail Packers and Printers Pvt Limited.
In December, the ED had confiscated a three-acre plot worth Rs450 million belonging to Lalu’s family in Patna in connection with the infamous land-for-railway hotel scam. The family was constructing what it claimed the biggest mall of Bihar on the said plot but much before the project could complete, the alleged scam surfaced and the land was confiscated.
The confiscation order comes barely a week after the ED authorities questioned Rabri Devi in connection with the scam in Patna. Apart from her, RJD president and his son Tejashwi Yadav are accused in the scam. The ED had earlier questioned Tejashwi in connection with the scam.
The ED had registered the case against Lalu and his family in July last year shortly after the CBI also filed a formal case against them wherein Lalu and his family were charged with getting three acres of land plot from the hoteliers in lieu of giving alleged favour to them in awarding tenders. According to the CBI, the three-acre plot, which is valued at Rs320 million then, was given for mere Rs5.4 million to RJD chief family.
