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Tejashwi calls ED’s ‘Rs 600 crore crime proceeds’ declare rumours, says make panchnama public

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By PTI

PATNA: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday dubbed as “rumours” the declare of the Enforcement Directorate that proceeds of crime amounting to Rs 600 crore had been detected throughout searches on premises owned by him and shut members of the family.

The RJD chief, who’s at present away in Delhi beside his spouse who’s anticipating their first baby, additionally stated the BJP might be left embarrassed if he made public the “panchnama” (seizure listing) signed after the raids.

“Just recall, in 2007, transactions worth Rs 8,000 crore, including a mall and hundreds of land plots, were alleged”, tweeted Yadav, in an apparent reference to the alleged land-for-hotels rip-off pertaining to his father Lalu Prasad’s tenure because the railway minister.

Now going through the warmth within the land-for-jobs ‘rip-off’ pertaining to, roughly, the identical interval, Yadav additionally recalled his identify being linked to a mall seized in Gurugram, which turned out to be owned by a personal firm.

The RJD had threatened authorized motion towards media retailers for “wrongly” reporting that Yadav, the get together supremo’s son and inheritor obvious, owned the industrial institution.

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“The BJP government (at the Centre) spreading rumours again, quoting sources. It should have asked its spin doctors to first settle the account on the previous operations, before coming up with the new tale of Rs 600 crore”, the RJD chief stated.

Earlier within the day, the Enforcement Directorate stated it has seized “unaccounted cash” of Rs 1 crore and “detected proceeds of crime worth Rs 600 crore” after it raided RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s household in reference to a cash laundering case linked to the railways land-for-jobs ‘rip-off’.

“Let them make public the panchnama (seizure list) signed after the raids. If we do so on our own, think of the embarrassment that these BJP leaders will have to face”, added Yadav, who peppered his two tweets with fairly a number of smileys to claim that he was taking all of it on the chin.

The ED had launched raids on Friday at a number of areas linked to Prasad’s members of the family, together with that of his son Tejashwi in Delhi.

The Central Bureau of Investigation had not too long ago questioned Prasad and his spouse Rabri Devi — former chief ministers of Bihar — within the case.

ALSO READ: Lalu livid over pregnant daughter-in-law’s harassment throughout ED raids

PATNA: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday dubbed as “rumours” the declare of the Enforcement Directorate that proceeds of crime amounting to Rs 600 crore had been detected throughout searches on premises owned by him and shut members of the family.

The RJD chief, who’s at present away in Delhi beside his spouse who’s anticipating their first baby, additionally stated the BJP might be left embarrassed if he made public the “panchnama” (seizure listing) signed after the raids.

“Just recall, in 2007, transactions worth Rs 8,000 crore, including a mall and hundreds of land plots, were alleged”, tweeted Yadav, in an apparent reference to the alleged land-for-hotels rip-off pertaining to his father Lalu Prasad’s tenure because the railway minister.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Now going through the warmth within the land-for-jobs ‘rip-off’ pertaining to, roughly, the identical interval, Yadav additionally recalled his identify being linked to a mall seized in Gurugram, which turned out to be owned by a personal firm.

The RJD had threatened authorized motion towards media retailers for “wrongly” reporting that Yadav, the get together supremo’s son and inheritor obvious, owned the industrial institution.

ALSO READ | Land for jobs ‘rip-off’: Tejashwi skips CBI questioning, seeks recent date

“The BJP government (at the Centre) spreading rumours again, quoting sources. It should have asked its spin doctors to first settle the account on the previous operations, before coming up with the new tale of Rs 600 crore”, the RJD chief stated.

Earlier within the day, the Enforcement Directorate stated it has seized “unaccounted cash” of Rs 1 crore and “detected proceeds of crime worth Rs 600 crore” after it raided RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s household in reference to a cash laundering case linked to the railways land-for-jobs ‘rip-off’.

“Let them make public the panchnama (seizure list) signed after the raids. If we do so on our own, think of the embarrassment that these BJP leaders will have to face”, added Yadav, who peppered his two tweets with fairly a number of smileys to claim that he was taking all of it on the chin.

The ED had launched raids on Friday at a number of areas linked to Prasad’s members of the family, together with that of his son Tejashwi in Delhi.

The Central Bureau of Investigation had not too long ago questioned Prasad and his spouse Rabri Devi — former chief ministers of Bihar — within the case.

ALSO READ: Lalu livid over pregnant daughter-in-law’s harassment throughout ED raids