Lalu Yadav Has New Case Filed Against Him For Money Laundering

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The Lalu Yadav family could be in more trouble. The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday also stepped in to probe money laundering by the former railways minister and his family in a railway hotel allotment case being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation.

 The CBI had last month raided the family's assets in Patna and beyond in a case that also named Lalu Yadav's son Tejashwi Yadav as a suspect. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, then an ally of Lalu Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal, had used this case to demand that the junior Yadav quit as Deputy Chief Minister.

 When he did not, Nitish Kumar dumped the party led by Lalu Yadav last evening. Early this morning, Mr Kumar, who had resigned yesterday, was sworn in as the Chief Minister, this time in alliance with the BJP.

It is being described as a masterstroke by Nitish Kumar and the BJP, leaving the Yadav household - that had two ministers in the state cabinet till yesterday - out in the cold. 

 The new case has been registered under sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act by the Enforcement Directorate on the basis of the CBI probe. 

 The ED, under the PMLA, has powers to attach and confiscate tainted assets and it is expected that the agency will initiate such a move once it makes progress in the case.

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