CBI action on Lalu Yadav's close ones, raids continue at 9 locations including Delhi, Patna

The CBI has raided the locations of former Bihar Chief Minister and close aides of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav. The CBI team is investigating Lalu's close friends in Bihar's capital Patna, Ara, and Bhojpur including Delhi NCR. This raid is happening on land for a job scam. According to the information received, on Tuesday, May 16, the CBI team reached 9 places close to Lalu. Where the search operation is going on at this time? The CBI team is also raiding the residence of Kiran Devi, MLA of Sandesh assembly in Arrah district. The video of the CBI raid has also surfaced. Even before this, the Lalu family has been questioned by the CBI in this matter.

Prem Chandra Gupta, close to RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, has been raided at his places in Delhi, Gurugram, and Noida. Also in Patna, Ara, and Bhojpur, the CBI team has reached the house of Lalu's close ones. Those who are being raided by CBI include former RJD MLA Arun Yadav and RJD MLA Kiran Devi along with others.

The land-for-job scam is from 2004 to 2009. At that time there was a UPA government at the Center and Lalu Yadav was the Union Railway Minister at that time. The CBI alleges that in lieu of a job in the Railways, Lalu got land and properties written in the names of his family members. People were given jobs in different zones of the Railways in Mumbai, Jabalpur, Kolkata, Jaipur, and Hajipur. In return, the Lalu family got the people to write their land.

According to the CBI, Lalu Yadav's family acquired more than 1 lakh square feet of land in Bihar for just Rs 26 lakh, while according to the circle rate of that time, the land was worth about Rs 4.39 crore. The special thing is that in most cases of land transfer, the land owner was paid in cash. In this case, CBI registered a new case of corruption in May 2022 against Lalu and his family members.