India, May 8 -- President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday granted sanction to prosecute RJD chief and former Union railways minister Lalu Prasad in the money laundering case linked to the alleged railways land-for-jobs scam.

The President has mandated that Lalu Prasad Yadav be prosecuted under section 197(1) of the Criminal Penal Code (Section 218 of BNSS, 2023).

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