By Raman Jokhakar, Tarunkumar Singhal, Chartered Accountants
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2 Lalu gave railway jobs in lieu of
land
In the worst attack on Railway Minister Lalu Prasad
since the allegations of his involvement in the fodder scam in the 1990s, the
JD(U) on Tuesday claimed that Lalu and his family acquired landed properties
worth over Rs.100 crore over the last four years through means that are not
above board.
State JD(U) President Rajiv Ranjan Singh released
land registry papers running in 500 pages as ‘evidence’. He claimed Lalu
‘invented’ three methods for amassing land. One, poor people’s plots were
transferred in the name of family members as deed of absolute sale in return for
railway jobs. Two, lands were gifted to Lalu’s kin by RJD leaders. Three, plots
exchanged ownerships in return of favours by the Railway Ministry.
The plots have been registered in the names of
Lalu’s wife Rabri Devi, daughter Misa Bharti and sons Tej Pratap and Tejaswi.
Some of the them have also been registered in the name of Delhi-based Delight
Marketing Company, owned by Lalu aide and Union Minister Prem Gupta’s wife,
Singh said.
The JD(U) leader said Lalu’s father-in-law Shiv
Prasad Choudhary was a landless poor in government records and, as such, was
given government land in 2000. Four years later, he became Shiv Prasad Yadav and
‘purchased’ land measuring 20 katthas and 21 dhurs from two persons. In 2006, he
gifted the land to Rabri.
Union Ministers Kanti Singh, Raghunath Jha and
Jayaprakash Yadav, too had gifted land to Lalu’s kin, Singh claimed, hinting it
was to wangle ministerial berths.
(Source : The Times of India, 13-8-2008)
