Tejashwi Yadav: The Central Bureau of India (CBI) summoned for the second time Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav for questioning in the land-for-jobs scam on Saturday. But Tejashwi informed the CBI he can’t do so as he was in the hospital with his pregnant wife.
Tejashwi is the younger son of former Minister of Railways Lalu Prasad Yadav. He was earlier summoned by the CBI on March 4 but he had not appeared before the probe agency. The CBI summoned him for a second time based on evidence and a paper trail against him.
Fainted after long interrogation
Sources said, “Tejashwi Yadav won’t appear before the CBI due to his wife’s health. After the ED raid, she was hospitalised yesterday at a private hospital in Delhi. She is pregnant and after twelve hours of interrogation she fainted due to BP problems.”
On March 10, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided Tejashwi Yadav’s Delhi residence. The raid started at 8:30 am at the RJD leader’s residence in New Friends colony in the national capital.
Earlier this week, the CBI questioned Lalu Yadav and his wife for several hours in Delhi and Patna respectively, in connection with the case.
‘CBI working for BJP’
Tejashwi Yadav said the CBI action was a result of his family’s “relentless opposition” to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He told reporters, “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.”
The charges in the case include criminal conspiracy (120-B), cheating (420) under IPC and corruption, the CBI had said.
According to the charge sheet, between 2004 and 2014, a conspiracy was hatched in pursuance of which BNR hotels of Indian Railways, located at Puri and Ranchi, were first transferred to the IRCTC and later, for its operations, maintenance and upkeep, it was given on lease to Sujata Hotel Private Limited, which is based in Patna.
Land for job scam
People were allegedly given employment in the railways in lieu of land parcels gifted or sold at cheap rates to the Yadav family and its associates.
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