Income Tax Department deserves all compliments for its swift action of consolidated move to confiscate so many benami properties of family-members of fodder-scam tainted former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav including properties of his wife, sons, daughters and son-in-law. Perhaps it is for the first time in history of India that so many properties of a political family have been confiscated by Income Tax Department after Misa Bharti and her husband repeatedly defied Income Tax summons to deny opportunity for explanation. Income tax Department should auto-add on regular basis further more revelations of other properties of Lalu-family in list of confiscated properties as being exposed by opposition-leader in the state and others. Need is for super-fast completion of enquiry paving way to lodge owners of such benami properties at the place most deserved for them, rather than chairs of power still hold by some of them. Income Tax Department should co-ordinate with other concerned agencies like Enforcement Directorate for a consolidated action against family-members of self-acclaimed messiah of the poor.
Such swift action by Income Tax Department will create much-needed fear-psychology amongst other wrong-doers in political community to be a deterrent against wrong-doing.
MADHU AGRAWAL