IRCTC scam: Delhi court reserves order on bail plea of RJD chief Lalu Yadav, next hearing on Feb 11

Delhi’s Patiala House Court on Saturday reserved order on the bail plea of RJD chief and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav in the IRCTC scam case.

Lalu Prasad Yadav (Source: PTI)

New Delhi: Delhi’s Patiala House Court on Saturday reserved order on the bail plea of RJD chief and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav in the IRCTC scam case. The court will now hear the case filed by the CBI on February 11. For its part, Enforcement Directorate filed reply in the court, opposing the regular bail plea to all the accused in the case. The CBI had filed the chargesheet against the RJD chief and his wife in the case on April 16, 2018 and it had said that there was enough evidence against Lalu, Rabri, Tejashwi and others. Besides Lalu Prasad and his family members, the CBI had also named former Union minister Prem Chand Gupta and his wife Sarla Gupta, Agarwal, then managing director of IRCTC PK Goyal and then IRCTC director Rakesh Saxena in the chargesheet. The other names in the chargesheet include then group general managers of IRCTC VK Asthana and RK Goyal, and Vijay Kochhar, Vinay Kochhar, both directors of Sujata Hotels and owners of Chanakya Hotel.