Earlier, the ED had registered a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in the snake venom incident in May this year in view of the huge amount involved in the racket.
Yadav was arrested on March 17 and sent to 14-day judicial custody.
However, he was granted bail by a local court five days later.
A senior ED official confirmed that the agency's Lucknow unit had summoned Elvish Yadav on July 23 after he expressed his inability to appear before the ED on July 8 citing his foreign tour.
The official said Yadav has been given exemption and allowed to come later.
He said that Elvish Yadav's close associate and Haryanvi singer Rahul Yadav, popularly known as Fazilpuriya, was interrogated for several hours at the ED Lucknow office on Monday.
Fazilpuriya was questioned about the use of snake in one of his popular songs.
Apart from this, Elvish Yadav's other associates Ishwar Yadav and Vinay Yadav were also questioned in this matter recently.
On April 6, almost six months after the FIR was lodged, the Gautam Buddha Nagar police filed a 1,200-page chargesheet under the Wildlife Protection Act against Yadav and seven others in connection with the case.
The charge sheet details how snakes were smuggled and how their venom was used in parties.
While Yadav had denied the allegations against him, calling them "baseless and fake", the police later dropped charges against him under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, saying it was a "mistake" on his part. Was.
Yadav was arrested on March 17 and sent to 14-day judicial custody.
However, he was granted bail by a local court five days later.
A senior ED official confirmed that the agency's Lucknow unit had summoned Elvish Yadav on July 23 after he expressed his inability to appear before the ED on July 8 citing his foreign tour.
The official said Yadav has been given exemption and allowed to come later.
He said that Elvish Yadav's close associate and Haryanvi singer Rahul Yadav, popularly known as Fazilpuriya, was interrogated for several hours at the ED Lucknow office on Monday.
Fazilpuriya was questioned about the use of snake in one of his popular songs.
Apart from this, Elvish Yadav's other associates Ishwar Yadav and Vinay Yadav were also questioned in this matter recently.
On April 6, almost six months after the FIR was lodged, the Gautam Buddha Nagar police filed a 1,200-page chargesheet under the Wildlife Protection Act against Yadav and seven others in connection with the case.
The charge sheet details how snakes were smuggled and how their venom was used in parties.
While Yadav had denied the allegations against him, calling them "baseless and fake", the police later dropped charges against him under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, saying it was a "mistake" on his part. Was.
