Lalu Yadav and Tejashwi Yadav (File)
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The hearing of the land-for-job case has been postponed in Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court. Now the next hearing will be on August 8. It is being said that the court postponed the hearing due to non-receipt of section against RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav from the concerned department. Actually, a hearing was to be held against Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav in Rouse Avenue Court. CBI’s lawyer and Tejashwi Yadav’s lawyer were going to present their respective sides in the court. After hearing the arguments of both the parties, the court decides whether the charge sheet is acceptable or not. Had the court accepted the charge sheet filed against Tejashwi, he would have had to get bail.
Tejashwi’s name included as an accused for the first time
Earlier on July 3, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had also made Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav an accused in the much talked about job-for-land scam. The probe agency on Monday filed the second chargesheet naming Tejashwi as an accused for the first time. The court was informed by the CBI through its Special Public Prosecutor Advocate DP Singh that a fresh charge sheet has been filed in the case. According to CBI a charge sheet has already been filed as the alleged act was committed in a different manner. The court was also informed that sanction on sections against Lalu and three others is awaited.
14 other accused named along with Lalu-Rabri
Former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and former Bihar CM Rabri Devi were named along with 14 other accused in the charge sheet filed by the CBI in the court of Special Judge Gitanjali Goyal. A company named AK Infosystems has also been named in this. In this case, now the hearing was to be held on 12th July i.e. today. But it got postponed. Now the next hearing will be on August 8.
Lalu Prasad, Rabri and Misa are on bail
Lalu Prasad, Rabri and his daughter and MP Misa Bharti are still on bail in this case. The probe agency alleges that during 2004 to 2009, when Lalu was the railway minister in the UPA government, recruitment was done flouting rules and procedures. In return, the candidates had sold their land in the name of Lalu’s family members at a very low rate.
Know, what is land for job scam?
It is alleged that when RJD supremo Lalu Prasad was the Railway Minister in the UPA-1 government at the Centre. Then during the period 2004-09 various persons were appointed to Group ‘D’ posts in various zones of Indian Railways and in turn the persons concerned had given the name of the family members of the then Railway Minister Prasad and the beneficiary company in this case. had transferred his land to AK Infosystems Private Limited.