PATNA: Renewed trouble came to haunt RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Friday as the CBI conducted searches in 16 locations in three cities and registered a fresh case against him, wife and former Bihar CM Rabri Devi and two of their daughters in a railway recruitment scandal in which aspirants allegedly gave more than 1 lakh square feet of prime plots in Patna as bribe for jobs. The appointments were allegedly made when Lalu was railway minister between 2004 and 2009.
Like a runaway train, the old case came barrelling down on the ailing septuagenarian barely a month after he got bail in a multi-crore fodder scam case. The CBI said the case was registered against the former railway minister and 15 others, including his wife, former Bihar CM Rabri Devi, two of their daughters and unknown public servants and “individuals”.
Searches were conducted at 16 locations in Delhi, Patna and Gopalganj on Friday for obtaining “pecuniary advantages in the form of transfer of landed property in the name of his family members in lieu of appointment of substitutes in group-D post in different zones of railways”.
