Patna: Income-tax officials on Friday raided carried out muilti-city raids on places connected to RJD leader and sand merchant Subhash Yadav.

Four places were raided in Patna, five in Delhi and one each in Hazaribagh, Ara, and Varanasi. The raided places in Patna included the Maa Marichhiya Devi Complex, the apartment named after RJD chief Lalu Prasad's mother at Ranjan Path in the Danapur area. According to I-T sources, Lalu's family owns the complex. Subhash, who is close to Lalu's family, owns three flats there, the sources said, and another RJD leader, Sandesh (Ara) MLA Arun Yadav, owns five flats.

Deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi had alleged last year that Lalu's wife, Rabri Devi, had sold eight flats in the complex in one day. Three flats were purchased by firms linked to Subhash, whose companies were provided sand mining lease by the Grand Alliance government, Modi had alleged.

"Documents of various shell companies being run by Subhash Yadav were seized from his premises, " a senior I-T official said. "We had information that from the accounts of shell companies owned by Subhash, money was transferred to various accounts including those of relatives of Lalu and Rabri."

The government's first action against Subhash came last year when the state mining department cancelled the mining licences of Subhash's Brodson Company Private Limited, engaged in sand mining in Patna, Bhojpur and Saran. Subhash had moved high court, and later the company was again given mining licences.