PATNA: The Enforcement Directorate has summoned RJD president and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad, his wife Rabri Devi and son Tej Pratap Yadav for questioning in the land-for-jobs money laundering case, official sources said on Tuesday.While Prasad, 76, has been asked to depose before the federal probe agency in Patna on Wednesday, his kin have been asked to appear on Tuesday.The statements of the three are to be recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the sources said.The sources, however, said that Prasad and his family members may not appear before the agency.Prasad and his younger son Tejashwi Yadav have been questioned by the ED in this case earlier.Last year, the ED filed a chargesheet in the case against Prasad’s family members before a Delhi court, naming Rabri Devi and their daughters Misa Bharti and Hema Yadav as accused apart from some others.The probe pertains to the allegation that Prasad, during his tenure as the railway minister in the UPA-1 government at the Centre, indulged in corruption for the appointment of group D substitutes in Indian Railways during 2004-2009.
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