The Delhi excessive court docket has requested Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav to seem earlier than the CBI on March 25 in Delhi in reference to the land-for-job case.
Advocate DP Singh for the CBI submitted earlier than court docket that Yadav could seem bodily this month and CBI just isn’t going to arrest him. Following this the Bihar deputy CM’s counsel stated that he’ll seem on March 25.
On Wednesday, the Rashtriya Janata Dal chief had moved the Delhi excessive court docket difficult the central company’s summons issued to him. In his plea, Yadav had stated that the allegations are primarily in opposition to his father Lalu Prasad and different officers, and that he was a minor when the alleged offences have been believed to be dedicated. Tejashwi Yadav turned 18 in November 2007.
The Bihar deputy CM’s plea earlier than the excessive court docket got here on the day his mom Rabri Devi, father Lalu Prasad, sister Misa Bharti and others have been granted bail by a Delhi court docket within the case.
In its chargesheet, the CBI has alleged that irregular appointments have been made within the railways in return for land parcels gifted or offered to Lalu Prasad’s household throughout his stint as railways minister between 2004 and 2009.
The candidates both immediately or by fast kin and relations offered their land to the then railways minister’s relations at extremely discounted charges up, the chargesheet alleged.
The cost sheet was filed on October 10 final yr for offences of prison conspiracy and corruption in opposition to 16 accused individuals.