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CBI summons Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav for questioning in land-for-job case
CBI summons Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav today for questioning in land-for-jobs case
UPDATE | Tejashwi Yadav may skip CBI summons in land-for-job case. Why?
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday summoned Bihar deputy CM and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav for questioning in land-for-jobs case. This is the second time he has been issued summons on the case, the first one being on February 4, according to ANI.
Also read: ED raids 24 locations including Tejashwi Yadav’s residence in land-for-jobs case
Earlier, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided 24 locations including Yadav's Delhi residence, other locations in the national capital region, Patna, Ranchi and Mumbai in connection with a a money laundering probe in an alleged ‘land-for-jobs’ case.
According to sources, as cited by news agency ANI, Tejashwi Yadav will not appear before the CBI pertaining to his wife's health conditions. The source added that his wife Rajshree Yadav, who is pregnant, fainted after a 12-hour long interrogation during raid conducted by ED and had to be hospitalised.
CBI also had questioned former Bihar chief ministers Lalu Prasad Yadav in Delhi and Rabri Devi in Patna in the matter.
“It is an open secret that probe agencies are acting against political opponents of the BJP and helping those who agree to align with that party,” Tejashwi Yadav told reporters earlier on his parents being questioned on the case.
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A preliminary enquiry was launched by CBI in September last year amid allegations that various persons were appointed as substitutes in Group D posts in different zones of Indian Railways between 2004 and 2009, without following guidelines, in exchange of land by unknown public servants.
It is alleged that during Prasad’s tenure as railway minister from 2004-09, 12 irregular candidate appointments were made in the central railways, violating the norms and procedures of the Indian Railways for recruitment. No advertisement or public notice was issued for appointment but some residents of Patna were appointed as substitutes in different zonal railways located at Mumbai, Jabalpur, Kolkata, Jaipur and Hazipur.
(With ANI inputs)
