IRCTC scam: Delhi court summons Lalu Yadav, wife Rabri and son Tejashwi 

Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad has been summoned by a Delhi court in connection to the IRCTC scam. His wife Rabri Devi and son Tejashwi Yadav are also accused in the case and have been summoned to the court.

In April this year, the CBI had filed a charge sheet against two companies and 12 people, including former railway minister Lalu Prasad, his wife Rabri Devi and son Tejashwi Yadav for alleged involvement in the IRCTC scam, PTI reported.

The case involves alleged irregularities in grant of an operational contract of two IRCTC hotels to a private firm.

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The CBI had registered a case in July last year and carried out searches at 12 locations in Patna, Ranchi, Bhubaneswar and Gurugram in connection with the case.

The charge sheet said that between 2004 and 2014, a conspiracy was hatched in pursuance of which BNR hotels of Indian Railways, located at Puri and Ranchi, were first transferred to the IRCTC and later for its operations, maintenance and upkeep, it was given on lease to a private firm Sujata Hotel Private Limited based in Patna.

It alleged that the tender process was rigged and manipulated and the conditions were tweaked to help the private party (Sujata Hotels).

Lalu Yadav, the then railway minister, allegedly entered into criminal conspiracy with owners of Sujata hotels, Sarla Gupta, wife of his close associate Prem Chand Gupta, an RJD MP in Rajya Sabha, and IRCTC officials for "undue pecuniary advantage to himself and others", the CBI FIR had alleged.

(With inputs from PTI)