The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had called the deputy chief minister of Bihar Tejashwi Yadav, , along with his father and Rashtriya Janata Dal chairman Lalu Prasad, for questioning regarding the railways land-for-jobs money laundering case investigation on Wednesday, December 20, as per the official sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lalu Prasad Yadav (75) has been summoned to appear next week on December 27 in order to record their statements under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), while Tejashwi Yadav (34), has been invited to depose before the federal inquiry agency at its office in Delhi on December 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the first time the ED has called Prasad to join the investigation. However, on April 11, Tejashwi was questioned by the ED for around eight hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The summons was issued when Amit Katyal, a claimed close associate of the Lalu Prasad family, was questioned. The ED took him in custody in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The purported fraud concerns the time when Prasad served as the railway minister in the UPA-1 government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is purported that between 2004 and 2009, a number of people were assigned to Group ‘D’ posts within different Indian Railway zones. In exchange, these individuals allegedly surrendered their land to the relatives of the then-railway minister Prasad and an associated business called AK Infosystems Private Limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ED had earlier said in a statement that Katyal was the director of this business when it purchased land from candidates on behalf of Lalu Prasad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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 agency claimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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, according to the agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It stated that in 2014, shares of the aforementioned company were transferred to Lalu Prasad’s family after they acquired the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a complaint that led to the ED filing a case under the PMLA’s criminal sections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is the first time the ED has called Prasad to join the investigation. However, on April 11, Tejashwi was questioned by the ED for around eight hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":496745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[65738,612,3264,102677,12395],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20172501\/1703066621_tejashwi-yadav-lalu-prasad-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496743"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=496743"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=496743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}