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NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested Bhola Yadav, a former OSD of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) patriarch Lalu Prasad Yadav, in a case of alleged land for job scam.
CBI spokesperson RC Joshi said, “We have arrested Bhola Yadav and Hridyanand Choudhary, who worked as a substitute employees of railways in connection with the case.”
Both have been produced before a court in Delhi.
He said that the agency is carrying out searches at four locations in Bihar’s Darbhanga and Patna at the premises of the accused and a private person.
Joshi said that during the investigation, it was found that then OSD to former Railway Minister, during the period 2005-2009, was involved in the alleged conspiracy in the appointment of substitutes.
He said that it was further alleged that the accused was managing affairs in the transfer of land by the family members of substitutes to the family members of Lalu Prasad Yadav and also engaging of substitutes in Railway.
He said that Bhola Yadav had acquired some properties during the relevant period.
The CBI registered a case on May 18 this year against Lalu Prasad Yadav, his wife Rabri Devi, his two daughters Misa Bharti and Hema Yadav, and unknown public servants and private persons.
The CBI official said that in the FIR it has been said that Lalu Prasad Yadav during the period 2004-2009 had obtained pecuniary advantages in the form of transfer of landed property in the name of his family members etc in lieu of appointment of Substitutes in Group “D” Post in different Zones of Railways.
It was further alleged that in lieu thereof the substitutes, who were residents of Patna, themselves or through their family members sold and gifted their land situated at Patna in favour of the family members of said Minister and a private company controlled by his family members, which was also involved in the transfer of such immovable properties in the name of said family members, the CBI said.
In the FIR it has been alleged that no advertisement or any public notice was issued for such appointments of substitutes in Zonal Railways, yet the appointees who were residents of Patna were appointed as Substitutes in different Zonal Railways located at Mumbai, Jabalpur, Kolkata, Jaipur and Hazipur.
It was further alleged that in continuation of this modus operandi, about 1,05,292 square feet of land or immovable properties situated at Patna were acquired by family members of Lalu Prasad Yadav through five sale deeds and two gift deeds, showing the payment made to the seller in cash in most of the land transfer.
Earlier on May 20, the CBI had carried out searches at 16 locations in Bihar’s Patna, Gopalganj and Delhi on the premises of Lalu Prasad and his family members.
