"Let Them": Tejashwi Yadav As CBI Plans To Reopen Closed Cases Against Him

The CBI is planning to reopen the case a year after it was closed, naming Tejashwi Yadav and his sisters Chanda and Ragini Yadav.

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav and his two sisters are likely to get embroiled in another case – one that the Central Bureau of Investigation had closed earlier, saying there was no wrongdoing. The agency is planning to reopen the case a year after it was closed, naming Mr Yadav and his sisters Chanda and Ragini Yadav. The final call, though, has to be taken by agency chief Subodh Kumar Jaiswal.

"The allegation is that Lalu Yadav's family received a prime property from a realty giant in Delhi in return for a contract to redevelop and renovate for two prime railway properties in Mumbai and Delhi, sources said. The CBI claims the property worth around Rs 50 crore was sold for just a few crores to a shell company in which Tejaswi Yadav and his two sisters were directors.

In 2021, the CBI's Investigation Officer cited several irregularities like back-dated stamp papers, sham transactions, and property transfer in favour of Yadavs "at a throwaway price". Senior officers in the agency said the case had to be closed as there were no strong grounds to register a First Information Report.

Sources now say the agency is taking a re-look at the case to see whether a First Information Report can be registered on the basis of the report by the Investigation Officer.