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Lalu Prasad, Rabri Devi, and 14 other individuals have been charged by the CBI with criminal conspiracy and violating the Prevention of Corruption Act, and all have been given summons for March 15.
The federal agency seized 1.5 kg of gold jewelry, 540 grams of gold and bullion, and 53 lahks ($1,900). The residence in Delhi’s New Friends Colony neighborhood is the registered address of a “beneficiary firm,” A K Infosystems Pvt Ltd, involved in the case; nonetheless, the ED claims that the Yadav family was using it as a residence.
Amit Katyal, Navdeep Sardana, Praveen Jain, Chanda Yadav, and Hema Yadav’s homes as well as those connected to former RJD MLA Jain, and Ragini Yadav were also searched, according to officials.
Together with other RJD politicians’ homes, the destinations included the three homes of the previous railway minister.
Lalu Prasad criticized the BJP
RJD national president Lalu Prasad on Saturday criticized the BJP, claiming that the ED, ordered by it, forced his pregnant daughter-in-law to sit for 15 hours. This came after the Enforcement Directorate raided 15 locations on Friday, including Tejashwi Yadav’s home in New Delhi.
“I fought against the black emergency as well as witnessed it. ED officials made my pregnant daughter-in-law sit for 15 hours straight. They forced my daughters and grandchildren to sit for that long in addition to her. The saffron party has descended to an all-time low “Lalu Prasad posted in a tweet.
“I’ll keep fighting the RSS and the BJP on ideological grounds. I will not, nor will any member of my family, submit to them “He continued.
Tejaswi’s sister Rohini Acharya said that the ED was “torturing” her brother’s expectant wife after the searches and claimed that the entire family was being targeted.
Tejashwi recently reacted to the questioning of his father by saying, “We are not at all disturbed as there is little merit in the matter. Tejashwi was one of the Opposition leaders who wrote to the Prime Minister citing “blatant” misuse of federal agencies. We still have to expect visits from the CBI, ED, and Income Tax till 2024.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge also accused the Modi government
Soon after ED conducted searches in the premises of former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav’s family, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday accused the Narendra Modi government of making ‘sinister attempts to kill democracy’ by misusing probe agencies against Opposition leaders.
He criticized the Central government for the ED searches on Tejashwi Yadav, the deputy chief minister of Bihar, in Delhi in connection with an inquiry into money laundering in the case of the scam involving land for jobs.
“His pregnant wife and sisters are being hounded in relation to a money land for jobs “scam” issue. Even though Lalu Prasad ji is elderly and ailing, the Modi government has not shown compassion for him ” Kharge wrote.
He claimed that the Modi administration was abusing the ED-CBI programme against opposition figures in an evil attempt to put an end to democracy.
As fugitives fled the country with millions of dollars, where were the agencies of the Modi government? He questioned.
Why is there no investigation when the ‘best friend’s riches reach the skies? He stated, possibly referring to industrialist Gautam Adani, who the Congress claims are linked to Narendra Modi.
Former Union Railway Minister Lalu Yadav was questioned by the CBI on March 7 in Delhi at his daughter Misa Bharti’s Pandara Road home, where he is currently residing following kidney transplant surgery, for five hours. The investigation agency had questioned Rabri Devi at her Patna home the day before.
