Lalu, wife and son to appear in courts in separate cases

  • | Wednesday | 29th August, 2018

They were summoned by the court after the CBI filed a charge-sheet against them in the IRCTC tender scam.The Patiala House court has also summoned Lalu, who is a co-accused in the IRCTC case. However, he will be lodged in a Ranchi jail by August 31. “I have complete faith in the judiciary. Though I have not fully recovered from multiple ailments, I will be surrendering before the CBI court at Ranchi on Thursday,” Lalu told reporters at the Patna airport on Wednesday afternoon.Hours earlier, Rabri and Tejashwi left for Delhi where they will be appearing before a Patiala House court on August 31. Since Rabri and Tejashwi have been charge-sheeted in the IRCTC case, the Patiala House court will decide whether they should be granted bail after their appearance before it or remanded in custody.The IRCTC case pertains to allegations that Lalu, as railway minister, awarded contract for the maintenance of two IRCTC-run hotels in Ranchi and Puri to a private firm in return for a prime plot of three acres near Patna.

PATNA: Three members of RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s family on Wednesday left Patna to appear before courts at Ranchi and Delhi in two different cases.The RJD president, who is a fodder scam convict, reached Ranchi to surrender before a CBI court on Thursday after the Jharkhand high court (HC) refused to further extend his conditional bail for medical treatment.His wife and former CM Rabri Devi and their son Tejashwi Prasad Yadav left for Delhi to appear before a special court in the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) tender scam case in which they have been made accused by the CBI.The Jharkhand HC has directed Lalu to surrender before the CBI court by August 30. “I have complete faith in the judiciary. Though I have not fully recovered from multiple ailments, I will be surrendering before the CBI court at Ranchi on Thursday,” Lalu told reporters at the Patna airport on Wednesday afternoon.Hours earlier, Rabri and Tejashwi left for Delhi where they will be appearing before a Patiala House court on August 31. They were summoned by the court after the CBI filed a charge-sheet against them in the IRCTC tender scam.The Patiala House court has also summoned Lalu, who is a co-accused in the IRCTC case. However, he will be lodged in a Ranchi jail by August 31. Since Rabri and Tejashwi have been charge-sheeted in the IRCTC case, the Patiala House court will decide whether they should be granted bail after their appearance before it or remanded in custody.The IRCTC case pertains to allegations that Lalu, as railway minister, awarded contract for the maintenance of two IRCTC-run hotels in Ranchi and Puri to a private firm in return for a prime plot of three acres near Patna.

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