ED grills Tejashwi in land-for-job scam
The New Indian Express|April 12, 2023
BIHAR Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, who is the son of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, was questioned on Tuesday by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for almost nine hours at the agency's Delhi headquarters in connection with investigations into the land for job scam.
AMIT MUKHERJEE
ED grills Tejashwi in land-for-job scam

The ED is probing laundering of wealth, allegedly amassed from job allotment in the Railways between 2004 and 2009, by the Yadav family and their associates. Lalu Prasad Yadav was the Railways minister in Congress-led UPA government at the time of alleged scam in which job seekers were confirmed only after they surrendered their land to Yadav family and their associates.

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