The Income Tax Department on Wednesday questioned Misa Bharti, MP daughter of RJD chief lalu Prasad, in connection with its probe into land deals worth Rs 1,000 crore.
Officials said, Bharti was questioned about her personal finances and investments, especially in real estate, after she finally deposed before the investigating officer (IO) of the case here after skipping similar summons at least twice.
They said, she was grilled for over four hours and was confronted with few documents seized by the department in the case.
Bharti was also asked about her and her family’s “connection” with firm identified as Ms Mishail Packers and Printers Private limited.
Misa, a member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) from the RJD, had earlier skipped income tax summons that were issued to her in this case registered under the Income Tax Act, 1961 and another under the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 2016.
Officials said, sometime back she was asked to dipose today and that she might be questioned again in the case.
A similar exercise of obtaining details is to be carried out by the department against her husband Shailesh Kumar, they added.
Kumar, like Bharti, had skipped the I-T summons in the past.
The department has recently charged six family members of RJD chief lalu Prasad, including wife, son and daughters, under the new and stringent anti-benami assets Act in connection with the probe.
The department has also served notices of attachment of assets to Bharti and Shailesh Kumar, lalu’s wife and former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi, son and Bihar Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav and daughters Chanda and Ragini Yadav.