President sanctions prosecution of Lalu Prasad Yadav in land-for-jobs PMLA case

President Droupadi Murmu has granted sanction to prosecute RJD chief and former union minister Lalu Prasad within the cash laundering case linked to the alleged railways land-for-jobs rip-off, official sources stated on Thursday, 8 Could.

Murmu has accorded the permission as mandated underneath part 197(1) of the CrPC (Part 218 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023), they stated.

The case has been investigated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), and the federal probe company chargesheeted the 76-year-old former Bihar chief minister, his son and former deputy CM of the state, Tejashwi Yadav and different members of the family in August 2024.

Earlier than this, in January 2024, the ED had filed its first chargesheet towards an alleged affiliate of the Prasad household, Amit Katyal, and different members of the family of Prasad, together with his spouse and former Bihar CM Rabri Devi, MP daughter Misa Bharti, one other daughter Hema Yadav and two related corporations — AK Infosystems Non-public Restricted and AB Exports Non-public Restricted.