Land-for-job scam case: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued a recent summons to Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav within the railway land-for-jobs scam case, asking him to appear on January 5 (Friday), official sources mentioned right this moment.
He was earlier referred to as to appear on December 22 however the 34-year-old skipped the summons. He had referred to as the ED discover a routine affair. In the identical case, his father and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav has been requested to depose on December 27 (Wednesday) on the ED headquarters in Delhi.
The alleged scam pertains to the interval when Prasad was the railway minister within the UPA-1 authorities.
“There is nothing new in the summons. All these agencies- ED, CBI and IT department- have summoned me so many times in the past and I have duly appeared every time. But now it seems to have become routine,” the RJD chief advised media on December 21 (Thursday) in Patna.
He was questioned by the ED on this case on April 11. It is known that the summons come following the questioning of an alleged shut affiliate of the Lalu Prasad household, Amit Katyal. He was arrested by the ED in November.
What are the allegations?
It is alleged that from 2004 to 2009, a number of individuals have been appointed to Group D positions in varied zones of the Indian Railways in return for land they transferred to the members of the family of Prasad, the then railway minister, and a linked firm named AK Infosystems Private Limited.
Katyal was the director of this firm when it acquired land from candidates “on behalf” of Lalu Prasad, the ED had earlier claimed in a press release.
“The registered address of the company is D-1088, New Friends Colony, New Delhi, which is the house belonging to Lalu Prasad Yadav and his family members,” the company had alleged.
“Several other lands were also acquired by Amit Katyal in the said company in return for giving undue favours by Lalu Prasad Yadav when he was minister of railways,” the company mentioned.
After buying the land, it mentioned, shares of the mentioned firm have been transferred to the members of the family of Lalu Prasad in 2014. The ED case, filed below the felony sections of the PMLA, stems from a criticism lodged by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Prasad, his spouse Rabri Devi and Tejashwi Yadav have been granted bail by a trial court docket in October after the CBI filed a chargesheet in opposition to them on this case.
The RJD is without doubt one of the I.N.D.I.A bloc of events which have joined fingers to tackle the BJP within the basic elections of 2024. According to the CBI, no commercial or public discover was issued for appointment, however some residents of Patna have been appointed as substitutes in several zonal railways in Mumbai, Jabalpur, Kolkata, Jaipur and Hazipur.
As a quid professional quo, the candidates, instantly or by way of their rapid members of the family, allegedly bought land to Prasad’s members of the family at extremely discounted charges, as much as one-fourth to one-fifth of the prevailing market charges, the CBI alleged.
Over the previous few months, the ED has recorded the statements of Rabri Devi, her daughters Misa Bharti (RJD MP in Rajya Sabha), Chanda Yadav and Ragini Yadav on this case.
(With businesses inputs)
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