CBI summons Bihar Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav for questioning in land-for-job scam case
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has once again summoned Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav to appear before its officials for questioning in connection with a corruption case. This is the fourth time that the CBI has called him for questioning. The case pertains to alleged irregularities in the award of a contract for the maintenance of two railway hotels in Ranchi and Puri when Tejashwi's father and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav was the railway minister between 2004 and 2009. Tejashwi was also a minister in the Bihar government during the period under investigation. The CBI had earlier conducted searches at Tejashwi's residence in Patna and the premises of his family members in connection with the case. The agency also questioned him and his mother Rabri Devi, who is a former Bihar chief minister, in July 2017. Tejashwi has denied any wrongdoing and alleged that the case was politically motivated. He has also claimed that the CBI was acting under pressure from ...