President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday granted sanction to the Enforcement Directorate to prosecute RJD chief and former Union minister Lalu Prasad within the alleged land-for-jobs rip-off, PTI quoted sources as saying.
Based on the report, the President accorded the permission as mandated below part 197(1) of the CrPC and Part 218 of the BNSS, 2023.
In August 2024, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) chargesheeted Lalu Prasad Yadav, his son and former deputy CM of the state, Tejashwi Yadav and different relations within the cash laundering case below the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA).
The case, which is expounded to a CBI FIR alleging that Lalu Prasad was indulged in corruption within the appointment of Group D substitutes within the Indian Railways throughout 2004-2009.
The CBI in its FIR alleged that the candidates or their relations have been allegedly informed to switch land as a bribe in return for jobs within the Railways.
Including extra, the FIR additionally alleged that the land parcels have been instantly or not directly registered within the identify of the relations of Lalu Prasad. Aside from this, the CBI had additionally filed three chargesheets on this case.
