New Delhi: The CBI has conducted searches in Parliament House and booked a Bihar MP from the Janata Dal United, one of nine members of Parliament it is investigating in what is being called the leave travel allowance or LTA scam.
The agency alleges that the JDU leader, Anil Sawhney and other lawmakers claimed reimbursement for trips that they did not make by furnishing fake boarding passes and air tickets given to them by travel agents who allegedly took 50 per cent of the money claimed.
All MPs get 34 free air tickets a year for domestic flights, paid for by taxpayers. These are meant to be used by the politicians to visit their constituencies and other areas on work.
In the FIR filed against the Mr Sawhney, the CBI has alleged that he produced fake boarding passes for purported flights to Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, to claim Rs. 1.35 lakh in reimbursement.
01/11/13 Sunetra Chowdhury/NDTV.com
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The agency alleges that the JDU leader, Anil Sawhney and other lawmakers claimed reimbursement for trips that they did not make by furnishing fake boarding passes and air tickets given to them by travel agents who allegedly took 50 per cent of the money claimed.
All MPs get 34 free air tickets a year for domestic flights, paid for by taxpayers. These are meant to be used by the politicians to visit their constituencies and other areas on work.
In the FIR filed against the Mr Sawhney, the CBI has alleged that he produced fake boarding passes for purported flights to Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, to claim Rs. 1.35 lakh in reimbursement.
01/11/13 Sunetra Chowdhury/NDTV.com
