New Delhi:

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday challenged the summons issued by the CBI asking him to seem for questioning within the alleged land-for-jobs rip-off within the Delhi Excessive Court docket. A bench led by Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma will hear his petition tomorrow.

Mr Yadav, in his petition, argued that though he was a resident of Patna, he was being requested to seem for questioning in Delhi, which is in violation of Part 160 of the Code of Legal Process (CrPC). As per the availability, he mentioned, a discover can solely be issued to an individual who’s located inside the native jurisdiction of a police station or the adjoining police station.

The 33-year-old, via the petition, requested time from the CBI to seem earlier than it after the top of the present Bihar Meeting session. Because the newly appointed Deputy Chief Minister, it’s his duty to attend the session, he mentioned.

The CBI has, until now, issued three notices (February 28, March 4 and March 11) to Mr Yadav. The Bihar Deputy Chief Minister has sought the quashing of the summons.

Mr Yadav additionally requested “the presence of his advocate(s) at a visual however not audible distance, as per the regulation laid down by the Supreme Court docket of India” throughout his interrogation.

Mr Yadav and a few of his relations, together with mother and father Lalu Yadav and Rabri Devi, are being investigated within the alleged land-for-jobs rip-off.

Tejashwi Yadav assured his full cooperation and help within the ongoing investigation.

Lalu Yadav, his spouse Rabri Devi – each former Bihar Chief Ministers – and their daughter Misa Bharti have been granted bail on Wednesday by a courtroom within the case.

The Yadavs are accused of shopping for land dirt-cheap in change for jobs in the course of the Rashtriya Janata Dal boss’s stint as Union Railway Minister from 2004 to 2009.

The CBI, in its chargesheet, alleged that irregular appointments of candidates have been made within the Central Railway, violating the laid down norms and procedures of Indian Railways for recruitment.