India, Jan. 10 -- A Delhi fast-track court on Friday ordered framing of charges against RJD chief and former railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, his family members and others in the alleged land-for-job scam.

Special Judge Vishal Gogne said Yadav used the railway ministry as his personal fiefdom in order to carry out a criminal enterprise, where public employment was used as a bargaining chip to acquire land parcels by the Yadav family in connivance with railway officials and his close aides.

Orally pronouncing the substantive portion of the order, the judge said that the CBI's final report revealed an "overarching conspiracy on the touchstone of grave suspicion." He also rejected the plea for discharge by the accused, including Lalu Pr...