Bihar Land Deal

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi launched a vitriolic attack on Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday, a day after she entered active politics, saying the Congress was feeling happy "over the induction of a woman with a tainted life partner".

Keeping up the pressure on Bihar politician Lalu Yadav's family that has been accused of corrupt land deals, the Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday summoned Lalu Yadav's wife Rabri Devi to its Delhi office next week to record her statement.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will decide on whether his deputy and Lalu Yadav's son Tejashwi should resign, said the Congress' Bihar chief Ashok Chaudhury, who is also a minister in the state. Opposition party the BJP has said that Tejashwi must be sacked over charges of corrupt land deals and has cited Nitish Kumar's pledge of "zero tolerance for c...

Sushil Modi, the BJP's most senior leader in Bihar today told NDTV that leaders from within Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's government had helped him expose what he has alleged are corrupt land deals worth hundreds of crores by Lalu Yadav and his family. Lalu Yadav is Nitish Kumar's ally and his two sons are ministers in the Bihar government.

The Income Tax Department has charged six members of Lalu Yadav's family, including his wife Rabri Devi, daughter Misa Bharti and son Tejashwi Yadav, with owning benami property under a tough law that attracts seven years in prison and a hefty fine for those found guilty. Tejashwi Yadav is Bihar's Deputy Chief Minister, while Rabri Devi is a former...

The Income Tax Department has provisionally attached a plot of land and a house in connection with its probe in the Rs 1,000-crore benami land deals and tax evasion case allegedly involving family members of Bihar politician Lalu Yadav.

Bihar politician Lalu Yadav has rubbished allegations of corrupt land deals, hitting out at the BJP and its ideological mentor the Rashtriya Swayansevak Sangh (RSS) for what he called an attempt to sully his image. He said the charges that he and his children own benaami or proxy property worth a 1,000 crores have been fabricated to exact political...

Just before she walked in for a 5 pm appointment with Congress president Sonia Gandhi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sent a warm tweet of support to Bihar politician Lalu Yadav, accused of getting 1,000 crore from proxy land deals by Income Tax officials, who searched almost 20 locations in Delhi and Gurgaon today to collect evidence.

Lalu Yadav's son, Tejashwi Yadav, appears to have the sort of good luck for which most entrepreneurs seek astrological intervention. A series of deals starting with 2008 - when Lalu was union Railways Minister - have climaxed with Tejashwi, Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, becoming part owner of companies that own valuable real estate. It is through...

Lalu Yadav, mainstay of Bihar politics, recently defended the business interests of his two sons, who are both ministers, challenging, "Should they die in poverty?" However, the smudges of questionable dealings are quickly ratcheting up, with new allegations today of the ministers illicitly acquiring - and then concealing - their ownership of multi...

Five days ago, 55-year-old Parshuram Chauhan in Bihar's Kishanganj claimed that he had sold one bigha land - about a quarter of an acre - to the state BJP unit for 70 lakhs.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United has alleged that a series of land purchases made by the BJP in the state for party offices were designed to pre-empt the centre's crackdown on black or undisclosed money by banning 500 and 1,000 rupee notes.

The Delhi Police today arrested Nitesh, the younger son of BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj, and has accused him of being the mastermind to murder his father at his sprawling farmhouse - called Nitesh Kunj - in south Delhi last month. Mr Bhardwaj's lawyer, Baljeet, who was privy to details of his land deals, has also been arrested in what the police now ...

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi launched a vitriolic attack on Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday, a day after she entered active politics, saying the Congress was feeling happy "over the induction of a woman with a tainted life partner".

Keeping up the pressure on Bihar politician Lalu Yadav's family that has been accused of corrupt land deals, the Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday summoned Lalu Yadav's wife Rabri Devi to its Delhi office next week to record her statement.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will decide on whether his deputy and Lalu Yadav's son Tejashwi should resign, said the Congress' Bihar chief Ashok Chaudhury, who is also a minister in the state. Opposition party the BJP has said that Tejashwi must be sacked over charges of corrupt land deals and has cited Nitish Kumar's pledge of "zero tolerance for c...

Sushil Modi, the BJP's most senior leader in Bihar today told NDTV that leaders from within Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's government had helped him expose what he has alleged are corrupt land deals worth hundreds of crores by Lalu Yadav and his family. Lalu Yadav is Nitish Kumar's ally and his two sons are ministers in the Bihar government.

The Income Tax Department has charged six members of Lalu Yadav's family, including his wife Rabri Devi, daughter Misa Bharti and son Tejashwi Yadav, with owning benami property under a tough law that attracts seven years in prison and a hefty fine for those found guilty. Tejashwi Yadav is Bihar's Deputy Chief Minister, while Rabri Devi is a former...

The Income Tax Department has provisionally attached a plot of land and a house in connection with its probe in the Rs 1,000-crore benami land deals and tax evasion case allegedly involving family members of Bihar politician Lalu Yadav.

Bihar politician Lalu Yadav has rubbished allegations of corrupt land deals, hitting out at the BJP and its ideological mentor the Rashtriya Swayansevak Sangh (RSS) for what he called an attempt to sully his image. He said the charges that he and his children own benaami or proxy property worth a 1,000 crores have been fabricated to exact political...

Just before she walked in for a 5 pm appointment with Congress president Sonia Gandhi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sent a warm tweet of support to Bihar politician Lalu Yadav, accused of getting 1,000 crore from proxy land deals by Income Tax officials, who searched almost 20 locations in Delhi and Gurgaon today to collect evidence.

Lalu Yadav's son, Tejashwi Yadav, appears to have the sort of good luck for which most entrepreneurs seek astrological intervention. A series of deals starting with 2008 - when Lalu was union Railways Minister - have climaxed with Tejashwi, Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, becoming part owner of companies that own valuable real estate. It is through...

Lalu Yadav, mainstay of Bihar politics, recently defended the business interests of his two sons, who are both ministers, challenging, "Should they die in poverty?" However, the smudges of questionable dealings are quickly ratcheting up, with new allegations today of the ministers illicitly acquiring - and then concealing - their ownership of multi...

Five days ago, 55-year-old Parshuram Chauhan in Bihar's Kishanganj claimed that he had sold one bigha land - about a quarter of an acre - to the state BJP unit for 70 lakhs.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United has alleged that a series of land purchases made by the BJP in the state for party offices were designed to pre-empt the centre's crackdown on black or undisclosed money by banning 500 and 1,000 rupee notes.

The Delhi Police today arrested Nitesh, the younger son of BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj, and has accused him of being the mastermind to murder his father at his sprawling farmhouse - called Nitesh Kunj - in south Delhi last month. Mr Bhardwaj's lawyer, Baljeet, who was privy to details of his land deals, has also been arrested in what the police now ...