Land-For-Jobs Case: ED Issues Fresh Summons To Tejashwi Yadav

The Enforcement Directorate has issued a fresh summons to the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Tejashwi Yadav in connection with the land-for-jobs case. The ED has asked Yadav to appear before it on January 5, reported news agency PTI while citing an official. He was earlier summoned to appear on December 22 but, the Deputy Chief Minister skipped it. Yadav called the ED notice as a ‘routine affair’. His father and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav was asked to depose on December 27 in the case at the ED headquarters in Delhi, as reported by PTI.

Earlier, Yadav was asked to turn up before the ED on Friday. However, he skipped the summons. He dropped hints a day before that he might give the slip to the latest ED summons.

He returned from Delhi on Thursday after a trip that lasted three days while asserting that there was ‘nothing new’ in the summons and further alleged that the central agencies were just acting according to the directions of the ruling BJP. The 34-year-old RJD leader said, “There is nothing new in the summons. All these agencies — ED, CBI and I-T department — have summoned me so many times in the past and I have duly appeared every time. But now it seems to have become routine.”

What Is Land-For-Jobs Scam Case

Between 2004 and 2009 (a time period when Lalu Prasad Yadav was the Railways Minister in the UPA-1 government), a number of people were allegedly handed out Group ‘D’ category jobs in several railway zones in exchange for transferring their land to the family members of Lalu Yadav and a linked company named AK Infosystems Private Limited. 

A number of members of the Yadav family have been accused in the case and ED has sent a number of summons to them in the past in connection with this case. The probe in this matter is still on.