Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav won’t appear Saturday for questioning by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the alleged land-for-job case as his pregnant wife is in hospital, sources told. Sources said Rajshree Yadav swooned after ‘twelve hours of interrogation (by the Enforcement Directorate) due to blood pressure problems’. Sources said that the RJD leader’s wife Rajshree Yadav is pregnant and after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raid history at the hearthstone of Tejashwi then was hospitalised at a private hospital in Delhi. “Tejashwi Yadav wo n’t appear before CBI due to his wife’s health.
After the ED raid, she was hospitalized at a private sanitarium in Delhi. She’s pregnant and after twelve hours of interrogation she swooned due to BP problems,” said sources. The ED team had on Friday conducted a raid at the hearthstone of the Bihar Deputy CM in Delhi for over 11 hours. Other members of the RJD have also been questioned and their parcels have been searched, as central agencies probe an alleged case that took place between 2004 and 2009 when Lalu Yadav was the union road minister.
The CBI and ED’s conduct have invited criticism from RJD leaders, who have accused the BJP of being ‘hysterical of losing and using agencies’ to target the party. Abettors Janata Dal (United) also backed the RJD; the party’s public chairman Lalan Singh contended that pregnant women and children were being worn. The case pertains to people allegedly given employment in the railroads in return for land parcels blessed or vended at cheap rates to the Yadav family and its associates, officers said. The CBI has filed a charge in the case against Prasad, his wife and former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi and 14 others under charges of felonious conspiracy and vittles of the Prevention of Corruption Act, and all the accused have been summoned on March 15, officers had said.
