New Delhi: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav’s Delhi house is being searched in connection with the land-for-jobs case. The Enforcement Directorate is carrying out searches at over 15 locations in the case of alleged money laundering involving Lalu Prasad Yadav and his family members. This comes days after the Central Bureau of Investigation questioned his parents, former Bihar Chief Ministers Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi, on consecutive days.
The CBI had on March 7 interrogated former union railway minister Lalu Yadav for five hours in Delhi at his daughter Misa Bharti’s Pandara Road house, where he is currently residing after his kidney transplant surgery. A day before, the probe agency had questioned Rabri Devi at her Patna residence.
The CBI case has named the Yadav couple and their daughters Misa and Hema, among others. It is based on accusations that Yadav and his family members bought land at cheap rates in exchange for jobs during his tenure as Union Railway Minister from 2004 to 2009.
The FIR, registered in May 2022, also names 12 people who allegedly got jobs in exchange for land. In July last year, Yadav’s aide and former Officer on Special Duty (OSD) Bhola Yadav was arrested by the CBI in the case. The CBI filed a chargesheet against 16 people under charges of criminal conspiracy and provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act. They are all summoned by a court on March 15, NDTV reported.
