The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is conducting raids at Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav’s Delhi residence in connection with the land-for-jobs scam case.
The ED sleuths are carrying out raids at the RJD leader’s residence located in the New Friends colony in the national capital.
Searches are being conducted at 15 locations in three states in connection with the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) scam. Raids are also underway at the house of RJD leader and Lalu Prasad Yadav’s aide Abu Dojana in Bihar’s Patna.
The ED searches are underway in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Mumbai including the properties linked to Lalu Yadav and his family members.
The raids come days after former Bihar CM Rabri Devi and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav were questioned by the CBI in connection with the land-for-jobs scam.
The case pertains to people allegedly given employment in the railways in return for land parcels gifted or sold at cheap rates to the Yadav family and its associates, they said. The CBI has filed a charge sheet in the case against Prasad, his wife and former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi and 14 others under charges of criminal conspiracy and provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, and all the accused have been summoned on March 15, officials had said.
The ED case, filed under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, stems from this CBI complaint.