{"id":500194,"date":"2024-01-29T14:29:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T08:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=500194"},"modified":"2024-01-29T15:07:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T09:37:09","slug":"ed-lalu-yadav-land-for-jobs-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/ed-lalu-yadav-land-for-jobs-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihar: Lalu Prasad Yadav appears before ED for questioning in land for Jobs scam case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Bihar Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav appears arrived to the Enforcement Directorate&#8217;s (ED) Patna headquarters on Monday morning to be questioned on the land-for-job case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lalu Prasad was served with a summons by the central&nbsp;government on January 19, having neglected to show up on previous dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At approximately 11 a.m., Lalu arrived at the ED office with his elder daughter and Rajya Sabha MP Misa Bharti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before Lalu was questioned, a large number of RJD supporters had assembled at the ED office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Misa, Lalu&#8217;s daughter, criticised the BJP-led national government over the ED summons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is nothing novel about this. We receive summonses from the central&nbsp;government whenever they please. They are now summoning everyone who is against them, not just our family, Misa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon after Lalu Prasad Yadav was being questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Rohini Acharya, the daughter of the RJD supremo, issued a warning to the Centre, stating that she would not spare anyone\u00a0if her father was harmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"hi\" dir=\"ltr\">\u092e\u0947\u0930\u0947 \u092a\u093e\u092a\u093e \u0915\u094b \u0906\u091c \u0915\u0941\u091b \u0939\u0941\u0906 \u0924\u094b \u0907\u0938\u0915\u093e \u091c\u093c\u093f\u092e\u094d\u092e\u0947\u0926\u093e\u0930 \u0917\u093f\u0930\u0917\u093f\u091f \u0915\u0947 \u0938\u093e\u0925 \u0938\u093e\u0925 cbi Ed \u0914\u0930 \u0907\u0928\u0915\u0947 \u092e\u093e\u0932\u093f\u0915 \u0939\u094b\u0902\u0917\u0947<\/p>&mdash; Rohini Acharya (@RohiniAcharya2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RohiniAcharya2\/status\/1751843601284489698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rabri Devi&#8217;s official residence was visited earlier by the ED, who wanted to present Tejashwi Yadav, the former deputy chief minister, and his father Lalu Prasad Yadav with a new summons for their appearance in the case on January 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They received a personal summons to come in for questioning at the Patna office at their home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally scheduled to appear on December 22 and then requested to appear on January 5, Tejashwi ignored the summons, referring to the ED notification as a regular matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The RJD chief was also urged not to appear at the ED headquarters in New Delhi on December 27, even though he was summoned to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) initially filed the case in response to claims that Lalu Prasad, when serving as the minister of railways from 2004 to 2009, offered railway positions to his family members in exchange for land parcels that the recipients either surrendered or sold for a pittance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ED case is based\u00a0on a CBI FIR that claimed that during Prasad&#8217;s tenure as Railways Minister in 2008\u201309, positions at the railway were granted to persons in exchange for land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":500196,"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":[798,86,612,810,161791,811],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/01\/29142804\/ezgif-1-6203483ee7-1.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\/500194"}],"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=500194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500194"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=500194"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=500194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->