Land for Job Scam: The problems of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav do not seem to end in the matter of taking land in lieu of job in Railways. After questioning Rabri and Lalu, today the Enforcement Directorate team is raiding 15 places of people associated with Lalu Yadav.
Land for Job Scam: The difficulties of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav and the people associated with him seem to be increasing continuously. Along with the CBI, the ED is also probing the matter of taking land in lieu of a job in the Railways.
After questioning Rabri Devi and Lalu Yadav in the land for job scam,
the Enforcement Directorate team is now raiding 15 locations of people associated with Lalu Yadav.
Bihar | Enforcement Directorate conducts a raid at ex-RJD MLA Syed Abu Dojana’s premises at Phulwari Sharif in Patna. pic.twitter.com/acIjns71rh
— ANI (@ANI) March 10, 2023
ED has raided the house of RJD leader Abu Dujana, close to Lalu Yadav in Patna on Friday morning. ED team numbering 12 has reached his house early in the morning. People around told that at 6 am the ED officers reached the house of former MLA Abu Dujana to raid. During this, the officials instructed all the people to stay inside the house. Raids are going on at other locations including Bailey Road of Abu Dojana, close to Lalu Yadav.
Raids were also conducted in Delhi, Bihar, Maharashtra.
Raids are on at Phulwari Sharif residence of former RJD MLA Abu Dujana. Apart from this, news of raids has also come to the fore in Delhi, Bihar, Maharashtra. Right now the officers were seen avoiding saying anything regarding the raid. It may be known that Abu Dujana is a former MLA of RJD and he won the assembly elections from Sursand. He is counted among the leaders close to Lalu Yadav.
Lalu was interrogated on March 7 and Rabri on March 6.
It is known that on March 7, the CBI team interrogated RJD supremo Lalu Yadav in the land for job scam. The team had reached the residence of Lalu Yadav’s daughter Misa Bharti in Delhi. Where Lalu, who was living after a kidney operation, was interrogated by the team.
A day before that i.e. on March 6, former CM Rabri Devi was questioned by the CBI at her residence in Patna for about 4.5 hours. During this, 48 questions were asked.
Order to appear in court on March 15
It goes on to say that Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court had issued summons to Lalu, Rabri and Misa on the CBI’s charge sheet in the Land for Job scam. Apart from Lalu Prasad, the CBI has named Rabri Devi and 14 others as accused in the charge sheet. They have been ordered to appear in the court on March 15. The CBI is interrogating the accused before appearing in the court.
Know what is land for job scam
The land for job scam is from 2004 to 2009. At that time there was a UPA government at the Center and Lalu Yadav was the Union Railway Minister at that time. The CBI alleges that in lieu of a job in the Railways, Lalu got land and properties written in the names of his family members. People were given jobs in different zones of the Railways in Mumbai, Jabalpur, Kolkata, Jaipur and Hajipur. In return, the Lalu family got the people to write their land.