Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday raided ten locations linked to Rajendra Yadav, Minister of State for Home in Rajasthan Government. The raids are related to mid-day meal scam.
The raids have been carried out at more than 10 locations in Rajasthan’s Jaipur, while teams of the central probe agency are investigating at multiple places including Behrod and Viratnagar as well.
On September 7, last year, Income Tax department carried out raids at various premises of Rajsthan’s home and higher education minister Rajendra Yadav, in connection with the mid-day meal scam.
A bag-manufacturing factory, allegedly being run by Yadav’s kin in his legislative constituency Kotputli, had also been raided in connection with the alleged irregularities related to mid-day meals, which benefit lakhs of students in the government-run schools in the state.
Rajendra Singh Yadav is a member of the Rajasthan legislative assembly and is an incumbent minister in the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government in the state.
(With inputs from agencies)
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