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  • Tejashwi got angry after questioning Rabri Devi, said fear of Bihar after Karnataka elections

    Tejashwi got angry after questioning Rabri Devi, said fear of Bihar after Karnataka elections

    Patna (IANS) | On Friday, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav lashed out at the BJP after questioning former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi at the Enforcement Directorate office in New Delhi. He said that after the Karnataka elections, he is most afraid of Bihar.

    RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, after participating in the sports conclave here on behalf of Bihar State Sports Authority, while discussing with reporters, said that we are already anticipating it. They will target us because they fear Bihar the most after Karnataka.

    He said that right now my name is not there in the charge sheet in this case, but if my name is added in the supplementary charge sheet, then there will be no surprise. He said that there is no need to panic over it. could be possible. But, the public is watching everything.

    Describing Congress’s victory in Karnataka as a lesson for the BJP, Tejashwi Yadav said that the worst would be for them in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

    It is notable that former Chief Minister Rabri Devi was questioned on Thursday at the ED headquarters in New Delhi. This process of questioning lasted for about 5 hours 30 minutes.

    During the tenure of the then Railway Minister and her husband Lalu Prasad, she was asked about two dozen questions regarding the land case in lieu of the alleged job.

    During the last three months, the investigating agency has also questioned Lalu Prasad’s son Tejashwi Yadav, daughter Misa Bharti, Chanda Yadav and Ragini Yadav in this case. In this case, raids have also been conducted at the residences of Lalu Prasad’s family members.

    –IANS

  • ED Questions Rabri Devi For 5 Hrs In Land-for-jobs Linked Money Laundering Case

    ED Questions Rabri Devi For 5 Hrs In Land-for-jobs Linked Money Laundering Case

    The Enforcement Directorate (ED) questioned former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi for about five hours and recorded her statement here on Thursday in a money laundering case linked to the alleged land-for-jobs scam, official sources said.

    She reached the office of the federal probe agency in central Delhi around 11 am and left around 6 pm. In between, she stepped out for about an hour for lunch.

    It was not immediately known if she had been summoned again.

    The sources said the statement of 68-year-old Rabri Devi, wife of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, was recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

    Rabri Devi’s children, including Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, daughters Misa Bharti (RJD MP in Rajya Sabha), Chanda Yadav and Ragini Yadav, have also been questioned by the agency in the case over the last few months.

    The ED had raided the premises of Chanda Yadav, Ragini Yadav, Hema Yadav, and former RJD MLA Abu Dojana in Patna, Phulwari Sharif, Delhi-NCR, Ranchi and Mumbai in March this year.

    The agency had claimed that it had seized “unaccounted cash” of Rs 1 crore and detected proceeds of crime worth Rs 600 crore during the searches.

    The alleged scam pertains to the period when Lalu Prasad was the railway minister in the UPA-1 government, and the money laundering case stems from an FIR of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

    It is alleged by the agencies that during the period 2004-09, various persons were appointed to Group D positions in various zones of the Indian Railways, and in lieu, the persons concerned transferred their land to Prasad’s family members.

    It is alleged by the CBI in its complaint that no advertisement or public notice was issued for the appointment but some residents of Patna were appointed as substitutes in different zonal railways located at Mumbai, Jabalpur, Kolkata, Jaipur and Hazipur.

    As a quid pro quo, the candidates, directly or through their immediate family members, allegedly sold land to the family members of Prasad at highly discounted rates, up to one-fourth to one-fifth of the prevailing market rates, the CBI had alleged.

    Tejashwi Yadav has denied these allegations in the past, saying that the then railway minister Prasad had “no powers” to give employment in exchange for favours.