Land for jobs 'scam': ED searches premises linked to Lalu Prasad's family, RJD leaders

The ED's move came after a CBI team questioned Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi in connection with the land-for-jobs case.

The case pertains to people allegedly given employment in the railways in return for land parcels gifted or sold at cheap rates to the Yadav family and its associates, the agency said. It is alleged that Lalu Prasad and some of his family members received plots of land as bribes for jobs at the Indian Railways between 2004 and 2009 when he was the Railway Minister.

The CBI filed a chargesheet earlier in the case against Prasad, his wife and former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi and 14 others under charges of criminal conspiracy and provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, and all the accused have been summoned on March 15, officials had said.

The CBI has so far arrested three people in connection with the case -- Bhola Yadav, who was an officer on special duty to Lalu Prasad when he was the railway minister; Hridayanand Chaudhary, a railway employee and an alleged beneficiary of the scandal; and Dharmendra Rai, another alleged beneficiary, ANI reported.

The ED case, filed under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, stems from this CBI complaint.