Lalu family has Rs 115cr benami property: Sushil Modi
April 22, 2017  21:18
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In a fresh salvo against Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Yadav's family, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushil Kumar Modi today alleged that it had amassed 'benami property' worth Rs 115 crore in a posh area of New Delhi through a shell company.

The RJD, however, dismissed the allegations and dared Modi to get all the charges probed by a central agency.

"Lalu Prasad's family got control over A B Exports Pvt Ltd, Mumbai, which owned a land and an under construction house on it, valued together at Rs 115 crore at New Friends Colony in New Delhi. The company's entire share holding, directorship and properties have been given to Prasad's family," Modi alleged showing documents purportedly supporting his claim.

One Ashok Kumar Banthia's A B Exports got interest free loans of Rs 5 crore - Rs one crore each from five diamond jewellers of Mumbai - and bought an 800 sq metre plot (no D- 1088) in New Friend's Colony in 2007-08, he claimed.

"At present, the value of the plot is estimated to be around Rs 55 crore on which a four-storied building is being constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 60 crore," he said.

As per the balance sheet of A B Exports', it did not have any employee and did no business in the past 15 years, and later all the shares and directorship of the company were handed over to Prasad's family, Modi claimed.

Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav was made a director of the company in January 2011, followed by his elder brother minister Tej Pratap in June 2014, he claimed.

However, the two brothers were no more directors of the company, though Tejashwi held 98 per cent of its shares, the BJP leader said, adding that at present, Lalu's daughters Ragini Lalu and Chanda Yadav were the directors.

He demanded a thorough probe and asked why Banthia handed over the company to Prasad's family, whether Banthia was a genuine or fake person and why did five jewellers give interest free loans to the company.

RJD spokesman Mritunjay Tiwari said that Modi has been 'running an old cassette with the help of his 56 inch of tongue. Everything is in accordance with the law and available in public domain'.

"Our leader Lalu Prasad has already said that the BJP could get all the rubbishes uttered by Sushil Modi be probed by a central agency or even by UNO," he said.  -- PTI
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