India, Jan. 9 -- A Delhi court on Friday framed corruption charges and criminal conspiracy charges against former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, his wife Rabri Devi, sons and daughter, in the alleged land-for-jobs scam, noting that Yadav used the railway ministry as his "personal fiefdom" to carry out a criminal enterprise when he was the Union minister.

Special Judge Vishal Gogne of Rouse Avenue Court, orally reading from the order, said, "A-1 (Lalu Prasad Yadav) used the railway ministry and the lands office as a personal fiefdom. Yadav and his close aides were operating as a criminal enterprise to usurp land".

The court added that the chargesheet revealed an overarching conspiracy wherein public employment was used by Yadav ...