IT Dept. attaches assets in Misa Bharti benami land deal case

Income Tax Department, IT, has provisionally attached few immovable properties in Misa Bharti benami land deal case.The IT, on Monday, attached two assets in connection with its probe into Rs. one thousand crore benami land deals and tax evasion case allegedly involving family members of RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav.

Officials said in New Delhi, 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 first November last year. 

They said, the value of



the attached properties could not be ascertained immediately.

The officials said that a few more such assets will soon be attached in the case.

Officials added that the department want to question record statements of Lalu Prasad's MP daughter Misa Bharti and her husband Shailesh Kumar in connection with the case.Both Bharti and her husband have skipped IT summons in the past.

Benami properties are those in which the real beneficiary is not the one in whose name the property has been purchased.