Delhi HC rejects plea by Lalu Prasad Yadav to stay trial proceedings in land-for-jobs scam case

The Delhi High Court has dismissed a petition filed by Rashtriya Janata Dal leader and former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav seeking to stay proceedings in a trial court in connection with a money-laundering case linked to the alleged land-for-jobs scam.

Yadav had filed a petition in the High Court seeking to quash the first information report filed against him by the Central Bureau of Investigation in 2022. In addition, he had also sought a stay on the proceedings in the matter in the trial court while the petition was pending.

In an order issued on May 29, Justice Ravinder Dudeja said that he found no compelling reasons to stay the proceedings in the trial court.

“The present matter is stated to be listed before the learned special judge for arguments on charge,” the order said. “Notwithstanding, the pendency of the present petition, petitioner would be at liberty to urge all his contentions before the learned trial court at the stage of consideration of charge.”

Dudeja said that the trial proceedings would be “an added opportunity” for Yadav to “put forth his point and get the same adjudicated”.

In an earlier submission, advocate Kapil Sibal, representing Yadav, had told the High Court that the CBI did not to obtain mandatory...

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