Delhi: The Enforement Directorate (ED) has issued fresh summons to Bihar Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav in land-for-jobs money laundering case on Saturday, December 23. The fresh summons have asked Tejashwi Yadav to appear before the agency on January 5, 2024.  

ED had earlier asked the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader to appear on December 22 but he skipped the summons, calling the ED summons a routine-affair. 

His father and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav has been asked to depose on December 27 in the case at the ED headquarters in Delhi. 

What is land-for-job scam? 

The alleged land-for-job scam pertains to the period when Lalu Prasad Yadav was the railway minister in the UPA-1 government. It has been alleged that from 2004 to 2009, several people were handed out Group "D" category jobs in various railway zones after they transferred land to the family members of then railway minister Prasad and a linked company named A K Infosystems Private Limited. 

(With the PTI inputs)