Face2News/New Delhi
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed final charge-sheet under sections 120-B r/w 420, 467, 468, 471, 109 of IPC and section 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13(2) r/w 13(1)(d) of PC Act 1988 and substantive offences thereof against 78 accused including then Union Railway Minister, his wife, son and daughter, then Special Officer to Minister of Railway; then PS to Minister of Railway and 29 Public Servants of Indian Railways, 37 candidates and 06 other private persons in compliance of directions of the Hon’ble Court of Special Judge (PC Act) (MP/MLA Cases), Rouse Avenue Courts, New Delhi in a case related to Land-For-Job Scam pertaining to engagement of candidates as substitutes in 11 zones of Indian Railways during the tenure of Sh. Lalu Prasad Yadav as Union Railway Minister during 2004-2009.
As disclosed during the investigation, then Union Railway Minister, in furtherance of criminal conspiracy, along with officers of Railways, his family members and others, engaged candidates as Group D substitutes in 11 zones of Indian Railways in complete violation of the extant guidelines in lieu of transfer of land by the candidate himself/by family members and/or by submitting fake educational certificates. Candidates who were engaged as substitutes in different zones of Railways were mainly from the districts which were the constituencies of then Union Railway Minister and his family members since long.
