RJD chief Lalu Yadav and Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested Lalu Prasad and Tejashwi’s associate in the Land for Job scam. Information has been received that Amit Katyal, who is said to be an associate of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad and his son Tejashwi Yadav, has been arrested in connection with the money laundering investigation in the land-for-job scam case. Official sources said on Saturday that the Central Investigation Agency detained Katyal on Friday and then arrested him after interrogation.
Was ignoring ED summons for two months
Sources said Katyal is likely to be produced in a local court, where the ED will seek his custody for questioning. According to sources, Katyal was ignoring the ED summons for about two months. Delhi High Court had recently rejected the petition to quash the ED summons issued against him in this case. When the ED raided the premises of Lalu, Tejashwi, his sisters and others in March this year, premises linked to Katyal were also searched.
The beneficiary of the scam was the former director of the company.
According to the investigating agency, Katyal is a “close associate” of the RJD supremo as well as a former director of ‘AK Infosystems Private Limited’. AK Infosystems Pvt Ltd is allegedly a “beneficiary company” in the case and its registered address is a residential building in New Friends Colony, South Delhi, which was used by Tejashwi Yadav.
What is land for job scam?
Let us tell you that the alleged scam dates back to the time when Lalu was the Railway Minister in the first United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the Centre. It is alleged that from 2004 to 2009, several people were appointed to Group ‘D’ posts in various sectors of the Indian Railways and in return these people transferred their land to the family members of the then Railway Minister Lalu and AK Infosystems Private Limited. Had given. The ED case, registered under criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), is based on a complaint filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
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