Lalu Prasad Yadav summoned in IRCTC scam case
Delhi’s Patiala House court on Monday issued summon to RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, his wife Rabri Devi, son Tejashwi Yadav and others as accused in the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) scam case.
Special Judge Arvind Kumar has directed them to appear before the court on August 31, in a case related to alleged irregularities in granting operational contract of two IRCTC hotels to a private firm.
The CBI, which had on April 16 filed the charge sheet in the case, had said that there was enough evidence against the accused.
Besides Yadav and his family members, former Union Minister Prem Chand Gupta and his wife Sarla Gupta, BK Agarwal, then managing director of IRCTC, 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 VK Asthana and RK Goyal, Vijay Kochhar, Vinay Kochhar, both directors of Sujata Hotels and owners of Chanakya Hotel.
