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IRCTC Scam: Rabri Devi, Son Tejashwi Yadav Granted Bail

Mumbai (New Delhi) : RJD leader Lalu Prasad Yadav’s wife Rabri Devi and his son, Tejashwi Yadav has been granted bail by Delhi court on Saturday in Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) scam case lodged by the CBI.

Also, they had been granted interim bail till November 19 by Special Judge Arun Bharadwaj in a money laundering case filed by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in relation to the alleged scam.

However it is not a the regular bail to the accused in the ED case after the agency sought time to file a reply to the bail applications.

The IRCTC Scam which is related to irregularities in granting the operational contract of two IRCTC hotels to a private firm, the Court summoned Prasad Yadav’s family and said to appear before the Court.

Although, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Prasad did not appear before the court on Friday as he is imprisoned in a Jharkhand jail on another charge.

As per CBI chargesheet, there are enough evidences against Yadav family and others involved. Also, the CBI had earlier informed the court that sanction has been procured from authorities concerned to prosecute Additional Member of Railway Board B K Agarwal, who was then the group general manager of the IRCTC.

Along with Yadav’s family, former Union minister Prem Chand Gupta and his wife Sarla Gupta and Agarwal, then managing director of IRCTC P K Goyal and then IRCTC director Rakesh Saxena were also named in the charge sheet.

The other names in the charge sheet include then group general managers of IRCTC V K Asthana and R K Goyal, and Vijay Kochhar, Vinay Kochhar, both directors of Sujata Hotels and owners of Chanakya Hotel, Delight Marketing Company, now known as Lara Projects, and Sujata Hotels Private Limited.

The charges in the case include criminal conspiracy (120-B), cheating (420) under IPC and corruption, the central probe agency had said.The ED had filed a case based on the the CBI FIR. PTI UK ANB ANB

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