Lalu kins appear before ED in land-for-jobs case; Lalu summoned on Wednesday

Patna: Former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi and her MLA son Tej Pratap Yadav on Tuesday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate, which has also summoned her husband and RJD president Lalu Prasad for questioning in the land-for-jobs money laundering case, official sources said.
Devi, 66, reached the ED office on Bank Road here along with her eldest daughter and Patliputra MP Misa Bharti.
Hundreds of RJD workers also reached the ED office and raised slogans hailing the mother-daughter duo.
Tej Pratap Yadav, 36, too appeared before the investigators.
Prasad, 76, has been asked to depose before the federal probe agency in Patna on Wednesday, the sources said.
They suggested that the fresh round of questioning was necessitated due to some “additional facts” emerging in the case.
The statements of the three are to be recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they added.
Prasad, Rabri Devi and their younger son Tejashwi Yadav have been questioned by the ED in this case earlier.
Last year, the ED filed a chargesheet in the case against Prasad’s family members before a Delhi court, naming Rabri Devi and their daughters Misa Bharti and Hema Yadav as accused apart from some others.
The probe pertains to the allegation that Prasad, during his tenure as the railway minister in the UPA-1 government at the Centre, indulged in corruption for the appointment of group D substitutes in Indian Railways during 2004-2009.
According to a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) FIR, the candidates were told to “transfer land as a bribe” in return for jobs in the railways, the ED said in a statement earlier. The money laundering case is based on the CBI complaint.