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| In Hour Of Political Crisis, |
| In Hour Of Political Crisis, Lalu Yadav, Family Face New Case For Corruption
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| INDIA
, 27-July-2017
6:44:32 AM |
| The Lalu Yadav family could be in more trouble. The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday also stepped in to probe money laundering by the former railways minister and his family in a railway hotel allotment case being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
The CBI had last month raided the family's assets in Patna and beyond in a case that also named Lalu Yadav's son Tejashwi Yadav as a suspect. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, then an ally of Lalu Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal, had used this case to demand that the junior Yadav quit as Deputy Chief Minister. When he did not, Nitish Kumar last evening dumped the party led by Lalu Yadav.
Early this morning, Mr Kumar, who had resigned yesterday, was sworn in as the Chief Minister, this time in alliance with the BJP. It is being described as a masterstroke by Nitish Kumar and the BJP, leaving the Yadav household - that had two ministers in the state cabinet till yesterday - out in the cold.
The new case has been registered under sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act by the Enforcement Directorate on the basis of the initial CBI probe, according to news agency Press Trust of India.
The money laundering case, however, could begin to pinch the Yadav family sooner than later. Under the stringent law, the Enforcement Directorate has the powers to attach and confiscate tainted assets. It is widely expected that the agency will invoke this power.
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