The CBI has filed a charge sheet against Lalu Yadav’s former officer in the land for employment scam.

The CBI has named two candidates who received land for jobs scam in Indian railroads in exchange for bribery in its most recent charge sheet, which was filed before a special court in Delhi.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a supplementary charge sheet against three people, including Bhola Yadav, a former special officer to Lalu Prasad Yadav, in connection with its investigation into the land for jobs scam, the agency announced on Wednesday.
Apart from Yadav, the CBI has named two candidates, Ashok Kumar and Babita, who received positions in Indian railroads in exchange for bribery when the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chairman was the Union railway minister, in its most recent charge sheet related to land for jobs scam presented before a special court in Delhi.

“CBI has today (Wednesday) filed a supplementary chargesheet in land for job scam case pertaining to the tenure of then Union rail minister (Lalu Yadav) against three persons including then special officer to Lalu Yadav and two candidates,” the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said in a statement.

CBI FILES SUPPLEMENTARY CHARGE-SHEET AGAINST 3 ACCUSED INCLUDING SPECIAL OFFICER TO THEN RAILWAY MINISTER IN LAND FOR JOB SCAM pic.twitter.com/WkBci2c8Rw

— Central Bureau of Investigation (India) (@CBIHeadquarters) March 6, 2024

“As per CBI supplementary charge-sheet, after becoming Union rail minister, Lalu Yadav, with intent to acquire the land parcels situated at the places where his family was already owning land parcels or the places which were already connected to him, entered into alleged criminal conspiracy ( land for jobs scam ) with his associates and family members and acquired land of various land owners, wherein he was having interest, by offering or providing group D employment in railways,” the spokesperson said.

The Yadavs have disputed the land for jobs scam against them.

The organization went on to say that “to implement the plan, (Lalu Yadav) with the help of Bhola Yadav devised an indirect way wherein the candidates were engaged firstly as substitutes and subsequently, were regularized.”

Lalu, the agency stated, also collaborated with officers of central railways and others, collected applications and documents of such people through his cronies and then sent those to central railroads to process and grant positions.

Earlier, two charge sheets were submitted by CBI – in October 2022 and July 2023 – for anomalies in engagements of other candidates in central railway and west central railway.

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The agency said on Wednesday that “investigation in other zones of Indian railways is continuing”.

The case alleges that substitutes for Group-D jobs were appointed in the railways between 2004 and 2009, in violation of the Indian Railways’ recruitment regulations and processes. The candidates allegedly sold land to Lalu Prasad’s family members at discounts ranging from one-fourth to one-fifth of current market rates, either directly or through immediate family members.