LALU’S DAUGHTER HAS BENAMI PLOT: BJP
PATNA: Senior BJP leader Sushil Modi on Saturday levelled fresh allegation against RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s family, saying his daughter Hema Yadav had acquired “benami plot” here worth Rs 62 lakh.
Lallan Chaudhary, a BPL card holder of Siyadih village in Siwan district has gifted land worth Rs one crore to Mrs Rabri Devi and Hema Yadav, daughter of RJD president Lalu Prasad.
Lallan is himself an Indira Awas unit allottee.
Releasing the documents to suggest gift of two costly land plots measuring 10 decimels at at Danapur in Patna within a span of 18 days, former deputy chief minister and senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi said on Saturday while gifting the land plots to Rabri and Hema, Lallan declared in the deed: the donor (Lallan) is very close to the done (Hema) for a long time and the donee is also financially helping him, so he desires to make gift his said property".
Lallan Chaudhury claimed to have purchased the land from Vishundeo Rai and Ratneshwar Yadav for Rs 4 lakhs in 2008.Sons of both Rai and Yadav were given employment under minister railway (MR) quota when Lalu Prasad was Railway minister. After 8 years, Lallan gifted the land valued at Rs one crore to wife and daughter of Lalu. He also paid Rs six lakhs in cash as stamp duty to the state treasury, according to the documents.
Modi said Lallan is the house keeper of cow shed of Lalu Prasad for 20 years and the entire land deal was benami one. First Lallan was shown as having purchased the land and after 8 years, he claims to have gifted the land to Lalu family.
Modi demanded Lalu should produce Lallan Chaudhury before the media and prove genuineness of the deal and innocence of his family in the land deal.
He alleged, in all deals of jobs in the railway ministry or contracts, Lalu got land transferred to his trusted personal staff and later got them transferred in the names of his family members.
According to the senior BJP leader, Income Tax authorities were looking into the land deals of Lalu family. He urged the chief minister Nitish Kumar to hold probe into the property deals of Lalu and his family members. He would submit a memorandum to the railway minister too seeking probe into land for jobs in the ministry during the tenure of Lalu Prasad
Income Tax had summoned Ms Misa Bharti, eldest daughter and son-in-law Shailesh Kumar to appear before the IT investigation team on June 7 and 8, respectively, but both of them abstained resulting into fine of Rs ten lakhs to each of the two.