After skipping three previous interrogations before CBI, Rashtriya Janta Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav presented before the CBI court today for the interrogation in connection with the alleged land-for-jobs case. RJD leader was assorted to the investigation team after the completion of the necessary formalities.
Last Monday, the CBI assured the Delhi High Court that Yadav would not be detained this month. Yadav informed the federal agency that he would need some time to appear before its investigators because the current Bihar Assembly session is slated to end on April 5, according to the RJD leader’s attorney, Maninder Singh.
Maninder Singh also confirmed that Tejashwi Yadav would appear before the court today, on March 25. Yadav could come before the agency on any Saturday in March, according to CBI counsel DP Singh, who had previously informed the court that the Assembly is not in session on Saturdays. The summonses issued against the RJD leader on February 28, March 4, and March 11 were challenged by the RJD leader. A special CBI court granted bail to Yadav’s mother Rabri Devi, father Lalu Prasad, sister Misa Bharti, and others on March 15 in the same case.
According to the officials, the fresh round of the questioning is based on the inputs gathered during the agency’s probe. The CBI’s investigation into the Yadav family and other parties is a part of its ongoing enquiry into the alleged roles of the accused that could not be fully investigated by the time the initial report was filed, as well as into the documents and evidence that surfaced after the first chargesheet was submitted.
The CBI has said that during Lalu Prasad’s time as the UPA government’s railway minister from 2004 to 2009, favourite persons were placed in the railways without following proper procedures, without posting any notice to the public or conducting any kind of advertisement. The organisation asserts that Patna replacements were hired by a number of zonal railroads in Mumbai, Jabalpur, Kolkata, Jaipur, and Hazipur. As per details, it is said that under the category of Group D jobs in the Railways, Lalu and his family has acquired over 1 lakh square feet of land just for Rs 26 lakh, when the cumulative value of the land was over Rs 4.39 crore. The CBI has claimed that Lalu has received the financial benefits during his tenure as the railways minister from 2004 and 2009.
The candidates, either directly or through their close relatives, are accused of giving Prasad’s family members substantial discounts on land as payment for their support.
Before leaving from his residence today morning, Tejashwi Yadav said, “I have been cooperating with the investigation since beginning. But the kind of political atmosphere prevail in India, it is easy to bow down, but very tough to fight. We have chosen to fight and we will prevail.” His plea claims that ‘he is not involved in any connection related to this case’.
On February 27, a Delhi court accepted the charge sheet, which names 16 people, including Rabri Devi, Misa Bharti, and Lalu Yadav. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) also raided various locations belonging to Lalu Yadav’s family members, including Tejashwi Yadav’s home in Delhi’s New Friends Colony, earlier this month as part of a parallel money laundering investigation into the land-for-jobs case.
In the land-for-jobs case, the Enforcement Directorate claimed to have discovered proceeds of crime (PoC) worth Rs 600 Crore. They include Tejashwi Yadav’s Rs 150 crore home in Delhi’s New Friends Colony.
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