The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday questioned Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav and recorded his statement in connection with a money-laundering case linked to the alleged land-for-jobs case.
Tejashwi, son of RJD chief and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad, reached the federal agency’s office in central Delhi around 11am.
He was questioned by the CBI in the same case last month. The ED had earlier registered a separate case under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) based on the CBI FIR.
Lalu Prasad, also a convict in three fodder scam cases, is the main accused in the land-for-jobs case. The rest of the accused include Lalu’s wife Rabri, also a former Bihar chief minister, their eldest daughter and Rajya Sabha member Misa Bharti, another daughter Hema Yadav and son Tejashwi apart from named and unnamed others.
In its chargesheet last October, the CBI alleged that when Lalu Prasad was railway minister (2004-09), he had helped at least 111 people from Bihar to illegally secure Group D jobs in various railway zones in lieu of money and land. These posts were not advertised publicly for recruitment. Around 150 people from Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Haryana too were given railway jobs against bribes, the CBI alleged.
