RJD leaders Lalu Prasad Yadav and son Tejashwi have asked for more time to appear before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in alleged corruption case, CBI sources said today.
According to sources, the investigating agency has now asked Lalu Yadav to appear for questioning on October 5 and Tejashwi on October 6.
The CBI wants to question the former railways minister Lalu Prasad Yadav for a contract given for the maintenance of two IRCTC hotels in 2006.
Tejashwi is also made an accused in the CBI FIR pertaining to alleged corruption in the deal. It is alleged that Yadav as Railway Minister handed over maintenance of two Railway hotels BNR Ranchi and Puri to Sujata Hotel (a company owned by Vinay and Vijay Kochhar) after receiving a bribe in the form of prime land of three acres through a benami company.
Earlier, on September 26, the CBI had issued fresh summons -- third in this month -- to Lalu Prasad and Tejashwi Yadav in the ongoing probe into alleged irregularities in IRCTC hotels' contract case.
The CBI had, on July 5, filed a corruption case against Lalu Prasad, his wife Rabri Devi and Tejashwi Yadav for alleged irregularities in the allotment of contracts for Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) hotels at Ranchi and Puri in 2006 to a private company when Lalu Prasad was the Railway Minister from 2004 to 2009.
The contracts were allegedly handed over to Sujata Hotels company owned by Vijay and Vinay Kochhar in lieu of a bribe in the form of a plot of prime land in Bihar, the CBI said.
