The CBI on Saturday summoned Bihar deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav in connection to the Land for jobs rip-off. Earlier he was summoned on February 4.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday recovered Rs 53 lakh, USD 1,900, about 540 grams of gold and bullion and 1.5 kg of gold jewelry from premises of former chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav’s household and RJD leaders, in reference to a cash laundering investigation into the land for jobs ‘rip-off’ case.
The searches additionally coated premises linked to Lalu Prasad’s daughters Ragini Yadav, Chanda Yadav and Hema Yadav, former RJD MLA Syed Abu Dojana, Amit Katyal, Navdeep Sardana and Praveen Jain in locations akin to Patna, Phulwari Sharif, Delhi-NCR, Ranchi and Mumbai, officers stated.
About two dozen areas have been searched together with an escort of central safety forces, they stated. Dojana briefly appeared on a balcony of his palatial home in Patna to declare to media individuals ready exterior that “I don’t know what these people are trying to search at my place”. “I only know this much that we are paying the price for not cowing down before the BJP,” he stated.
Premises of corporations like Brahma City Pvt Ltd, Elite Landbase Pvt Ltd, Whiteland Corporation Pvt Ltd and Meridian Construction India Ltd have been additionally searched. The home in Delhi’s New Friends Colony space is the registered tackle of a “beneficiary company”, A Ok Infosystems Pvt Ltd, concerned within the case however, in line with the ED, it was getting used as a residential property by the Yadav household.
The alleged rip-off pertains to the interval when Lalu Prasad was the railway minister within the UPA-1 authorities.
