CBI cancels Tejashwi bail plea for threatening officers

The CBI moved a Delhi court on September 17 seeking cancellation of bail granted to Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav in the “land-for-jobs”, for allegedly threatening some officers of the central probe agency.

The CBI contended before the court that the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader had threatened the CBI officials while addressing a press conference, thereby influencing the case, as per media reports.

Special Judge Geetanjali Goel has issued a notice to Lalu’s scion and sought his response to the CBI’s plea.

At a press conference, Yadav had said, “Do CBI officials not have a mother and children? Don’t they have a family? Will they always remain CBI officers? Will they not retire? Will only this party remain in power? What message do you want to send? You should honestly discharge the duty of the constitutional organization.”

His address was over the raids at residences of several RJD leaders by the CBI in connection with the “land-for-jobs” case involving alleged irregularities during his father Lalu Yadav’s tenure as Railway minister in the UPA-I government.

The scam relates to the IRCTC hotels maintenance contract case in which the CBI had charged 12 people and two companies. As per government sources, there were irregularities in the allotment of contracts of two IRCTC hotels in Ranchi and Odisha’s Puri in 2006 to a private firm involving a bribe in the form of a three-acre commercial plot at a prime location in Bihar capital Patna.

The Enforcement Directorate had also filed a chargesheet in the case and accused them of money laundering. – INDIA NEWS STREAM