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IRCTC scam: CBI questions former Bihar CM Rabri Devi

IRCTC scam: CBI questions former Bihar CM Rabri Devi

Apr 10, 2018
05:04 pm

What's the story

The CBI today questioned former Bihar CM Rabri Devi in connection with the alleged IRCTC hotel scam during the tenure of her husband Lalu Prasad as the railway minister, officials said. The questioning by a CBI team started in Patna, they said. The case pertains to allegations that Lalu Prasad handed over the maintenance of two hotels run by the IRCTC to Sujata Hotel.

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Maintenance was handed over in return of a plot

Maintenance of the hotels under Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation, a subsidiary of the Indian Railways, in Ranchi and Puri was given to Sujata Hotel, owned by Vinay and Vijay Kochhar, in return for a three acres plot in Patna through a benami company.

The FIR

RJD leader abused his official position: FIR

The FIR alleged that RJD leader Lalu Prasad Yadav abused his official position for extending undue favors to the Kochhars and acquired a piece of "high-value premium land" through the benami firm, Delight Marketing Company. As a quid pro quo, the former railway minister "dishonestly and fraudulently" awarded the contract to them for the two hotels, the FIR had alleged.

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Ownership of Delight Marketing Company changed hands

After the tender was awarded to Sujata Hotel, the ownership of Delight Marketing Company also changed hands from Sarla Gupta to Rabri Devi and Tejashwi Yadav between 2010 and 2014. By this time, Lalu Prasad had resigned as railway minister.

Cases

CBI registered case against Lalu, his wife and son

The CBI registered the case against Lalu, his wife Rabri Devi, son Tejashwi, and Sarla Gupta, the wife of former Union minister Prem Chand Gupta. Others named as accused in the FIR include both directors of Sujata Hotels and owner of Chanakya Hotel, Delight Marketing Company, now known as Lara Projects, and the then IRCTC managing director PK Goel, it alleged.