IRCTC scam: CBI summons Lalu Prasad Yadav, son Tejashwi Yadav

NEW DELHI: Just a week after the Enforcement Directorate attached a Delhi farmhouse belonging to Misha Bharti, Rajya Sabha MP and daughter of former Bihar CM Laloo Prasad, the income tax department on Monday attached another property in the national capital belonging to Lalu’s son and former Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav A senior I-T officer confirmed that house no. D-1088 in New Friends Colony was attached under the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act. Earlier in June this year, the department had issued a provisional attachment order against the property which was registered in the name of AB Exports. The I-T department has claimed that the beneficial owners of the property are three children of Lalu Yadav, including Tejashwi, Ragini and Chanda Yadav.The estimated market value of the New Friends Colony property is more than Rs 40 crore while the declared book value is just Rs 5 crore. The department is in the process of confirming attachment of other properties allegedly owned by Lalu’s family members in Delhi and in Patna.In June this year, the I-T department had identified several benami properties of the family and had issued provisional attachment orders against them under the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act. The provisional attachment order had named Lalu’s wife and former Bihar CM Rabri Devi and her three daughters--Misha Bharti, Chanda Yadav and Ragini Yadav—besides son Tejashwi Yadav and son-in-law Shailesh as beneficial owners of these properties. The combined market value of all these properties were estimated at over Rs 170 crore.The I-T is in the process of issuing more attachment orders, confirming its provisional orders issued earlier. Among the properties identified and provisional attachment orders issued against them in June are land parcels at Danapur and Patna in Bihar and farmlands and buildings in Delhi.The land in Danapur, registered in the name of Delight Marketing Pvt Ltd, has been estimated at Rs 60 crore. The beneficial owners of the property, according to the I-T, are Tejashwi and Rabri Devi. Again, the book value of the property was declared at Rs 1.9 crore.Another land at Phulwari Sharif in Patna, registered in the name of AK Infosystem Pvt Ltd, has Tejashwi Yadav and Rabri Devi as its beneficial owners.