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IT raids on Lalu Prasad Yadav's 22 places
The Income Tax Department on Tuesday conducted raids at 22 places in and around Delhi in connection with an alleged \"benami\" property case involving RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and his family, triggering calls by the Opposition for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to end his party\'s alliance with the RJD and call for fresh elections.
RJD chief accused of benami land deals
​Patna/New Delhi: The Income Tax Department on Tuesday conducted raids at 22 places in and around Delhi in connection with an alleged "benami" property case involving RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and his family, triggering calls by the Opposition for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to end his party's alliance with the RJD and call for fresh elections.
Raids were conducted early on Tuesday on the premises owned by several prominent businessmen and real estate agents. I-T sleuths have also raided the premises of the son of RJD MP P C Gupta and a few other businessmen.
While raids are being conducted at a dozen locations, 10 other official premises are being surveyed by the I-T department, officials said.
“People and businessmen connected to the land deals involving Lalu Prasad and his family are being searched.
There are allegations of benami deals worth about Rs 1,000 crore and subsequent tax evasion,” a senior official said.
A team of about 100 tax department officials and police personnel are conducting the raids, they said.
This comes just days after the BJP accused Lalu Prasad and his children — Tejashwi Yadav, Tej Pratap Yadav and Misa Bharti — of being involved in corrupt land deals.
On May 12, addressing a press conference at the party headquarters, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad demanded the Central government to probe the alleged land deals.
He alleged that Lalu’s daughter Misa Bharti, a Rajya Sabha MP, failed to disclose these assets in her election affidavit and demanded the Election Commission to take action against her.
He also wondered whether Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar would invoke the special law enacted by his government in which assets acquired through illicit means are confiscated. Lalu’s RJD is a constituent of Bihar’s ruling coalition led by Kumar. His sons Tejashwi Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav are ministers in the government.
“This is not an issue that falls in the domain of the state government nor in the company law of Bihar. If the BJP has documents, then it should take legal recourse to prove their accusations,” Nitish said.
"It is the right time for Nitish Kumar to end his party JD-U's alliance with RJD and hold fresh assembly polls," senior BJP leader Vinod Narayan Jha told media here.
Following the IT raids, Sushil Kumar Modi told the media in Patna that his stand was "vindicated".
