ED attaches Misa Bharti’s Delhi farmhouse

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached a farmhouse of RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s daughter Misa Bharti in a money laundering case involving shell companies.

The Bijwasan farmhouse in Delhi had been bought in the name of Mishail Packers and Printers, in which Ms. Bharti and her husband Shailesh Kumar are directors.

The farmhouse, according to the ED, was purchased using ₹ 1.2 crore — involved in money laundering — in 2008-09.

The agency has already recorded the statements of Ms. Bharti and her husband to get details about their company and its operations.