<p>Patna: Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials interrogated RJD supremo <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/lalu-prasad-yadav">Lalu Prasad</a> on Wednesday regarding his alleged involvement in the land-for-job scam during his tenure as railway minister from 2004 to 2009.</p>.<p>Lalu, accompanied by his Lok Sabha MP daughter Misa Bharti, arrived at the ED office in Patna at 11 am. The questioning lasted for over three hours, concluding shortly before 3 pm.</p>.<p>While the exact details remain unclear, sources from the investigating agency said that Lalu was grilled about how beneficiaries secured jobs in the Railways after land parcels were transferred to his wife, former chief minister Rabri Devi.</p>.ED raids Bengaluru companies that received funds from George Soros' NGO.<p>According to the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, Lalu was also asked about a person named Sanjay Rai, who sold his 3,375-square-foot plot to Rabri for a nominal price of Rs 3.75 lakh, and got a Group D position in the Railways shortly after the land transfer.</p><p>Rabri was interrogated by the ED for three hours on Tuesday about her connections to those who secured jobs in exchange for land transferred to her name, as well as her son Tejashwi Yadav's bungalow purchase in New Delhi’s Friend's Colony.</p><p>Shortly after Rabri’s interrogation, her elder son Tej Pratap was also grilled till Tuesday evening.</p><p>Neither Rabri nor Tej Pratap on Tuesday, nor Lalu Prasad on Wednesday, responded to media queries. It fell to Rabri’s youngest son, former Deputy CM Tejashwi, to address a barrage of questions from the media regarding the ED probe.</p><p>“I told you soon after the Delhi elections that the ED, CBI and IT would shift their focus on Bihar as Assembly polls are due here. Let the investigating agency interrogate us as much as they want. The more they probe us, the more beneficial it is for us politically,” said Tejashwi.</p><p>The ED is investigating Lalu and his family members as several people, who secured Group D jobs in the Railways during Lalu's tenure as railway minister, transferred their land to Rabri and her children before receiving their appointment letters.</p>
<p>Patna: Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials interrogated RJD supremo <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/lalu-prasad-yadav">Lalu Prasad</a> on Wednesday regarding his alleged involvement in the land-for-job scam during his tenure as railway minister from 2004 to 2009.</p>.<p>Lalu, accompanied by his Lok Sabha MP daughter Misa Bharti, arrived at the ED office in Patna at 11 am. The questioning lasted for over three hours, concluding shortly before 3 pm.</p>.<p>While the exact details remain unclear, sources from the investigating agency said that Lalu was grilled about how beneficiaries secured jobs in the Railways after land parcels were transferred to his wife, former chief minister Rabri Devi.</p>.ED raids Bengaluru companies that received funds from George Soros' NGO.<p>According to the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, Lalu was also asked about a person named Sanjay Rai, who sold his 3,375-square-foot plot to Rabri for a nominal price of Rs 3.75 lakh, and got a Group D position in the Railways shortly after the land transfer.</p><p>Rabri was interrogated by the ED for three hours on Tuesday about her connections to those who secured jobs in exchange for land transferred to her name, as well as her son Tejashwi Yadav's bungalow purchase in New Delhi’s Friend's Colony.</p><p>Shortly after Rabri’s interrogation, her elder son Tej Pratap was also grilled till Tuesday evening.</p><p>Neither Rabri nor Tej Pratap on Tuesday, nor Lalu Prasad on Wednesday, responded to media queries. It fell to Rabri’s youngest son, former Deputy CM Tejashwi, to address a barrage of questions from the media regarding the ED probe.</p><p>“I told you soon after the Delhi elections that the ED, CBI and IT would shift their focus on Bihar as Assembly polls are due here. Let the investigating agency interrogate us as much as they want. The more they probe us, the more beneficial it is for us politically,” said Tejashwi.</p><p>The ED is investigating Lalu and his family members as several people, who secured Group D jobs in the Railways during Lalu's tenure as railway minister, transferred their land to Rabri and her children before receiving their appointment letters.</p>