Hyderabad, June 23 -- Since Mohan Yadav took charge as Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister in December 2023, his family members and their real estate companies have collectively purchased at least 137 plots, totalling 168 acre, for Rs 45 crore. Most of them along road corridors announced by his own government or in areas reclassified for development under the Ujjain Master Plan 2035.

This is the finding of a multi-part investigation by The Indian Express (IE), based on land registry records in and around Ujjain.

Who bought what

The purchases were made by the CM's wife Seema, his son Vaibhav's wife Shalini, brothers Nandlal and Narayan, Narayan's wife Rekha, their son Abhay and first cousins Govind and Nilesh Yadav. They were either in their ...