New Delhi: The income tax (I-T) department on Monday seized benami properties of RJD chief
Lalu Prasad's daughter
Misa Bharti, son-in-law Shailesh Kumar and
Bihar deputy chief minister
Tejashwi Prasad Yadav.
Earlier the I-T department had issued two summons to Misa, but after she failed to appear, the department proceeded to seize the properties which were raided in May.
Officials said two assets, a house and a land in Delhi, have been attached after the department issued a provisional order under the Benami Transactions Act, 1988, that came into force on November 1 last year.
They said the assets are in the benami possession and the action has been taken after the department carried out raids in this case last month.
The value of the attached properties could not be ascertained immediately.
Benami properties are those in which the real beneficiary is not the one in whose name the property has been purchased.
The officials added that a few more such assets will soon be attached in the case, even as they wanted to question Prasad's MP daughter Misa Bharti and her husband Shailesh Kumar.
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