Tejashwi grilled for 8 hrs by CBI in land-for-jobs scam
| Date :26-Mar-2023 |
NEW DELHI,
THE CBI questioned Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav at its headquarters for more than eight hours on Saturday in an ongoing investigation concerning the land-for-jobs scam case, officials said. Yadav had missed three earlier dates given by the agency and arrived at the CBI headquarters here at around 10:30 am according to his commitment to the Delhi High Court last week, they said.
Following necessary formalities, he was escorted to the investigating team which questioned him till around 8 PM with a nearly 90-minute lunch break, during which he went out of the building, they said. The CBI’s line of inquiry was believed to have focused on Yadav’s financial transactions, including his purported links to AB Exports Private Limited and AK Infosystems Pvt Ltd. Last week, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) assured the Delhi High Court that Yadav would not be arrested this month. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader’s counsel, Maninder Singh, had informed the high court that he would require some time to appear before the CBI investigators due to the ongoing Bihar Assembly session, scheduled to conclude on April 5.
The CBI’s counsel, D P Singh, had argued that the Assembly was not convened on Saturdays and Yadav could appear before the agency on any Saturday in March according to his convenience. Maninder Singh had told the court that Yadav would appear before the investigating officer at the CBI headquarters in Delhi at 10:30 am on March 25.
RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s MP daughter Misa Bharti was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate for over six hours on Saturday in a money laundering case linked to the alleged land-for-jobs scam in the railways, officials said. Bharti, 46, went into the federal agency’s office in central Delhi around 11 am and exited around 7 pm.