Rabri Devi skips ED summons, gets fresh date along with son
11 Oct 2017 11:41 PM IST
New Delhi: Former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi on Wednesday skipped deposition before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for the third consecutive time in a PMLA probe in the railway hotels allotment corruption case, while her son Tejashwi Yadav was summoned again, officials said.
Rabri Devi, the wife of RJD chief and former railway minister Lalu Prasad, failed to appear in the case for the third time after which the central probe agency asked her to appear on October 16, they said.
It was not clear if she furnished any reason for her absence today.
Tejashwi Yadav, a former deputy chief minister of Bihar, was grilled for about nine hours by the ED yesterday in the matter and it has now summoned him again for questioning tomorrow, official sources said.
The ED is probing members of the Lalu Prasad family and others under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
In July, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had registered the criminal FIR (first information report) and conducted multiple searches against Lalu Prasad, who is also a former Bihar chief minister, and others.
The CBI FIR alleges that Prasad, as railway minister, handed over the maintenance of two IRCTC hotels to a company after receiving a bribe in the form of prime land in Patna through a 'benami' company owned by Sarla Gupta.
The ED had registered a criminal case against the Lalu Prasad's family members and others under the PMLA sometime back, based on the CBI FIR.
It had earlier questioned wife of former UPA minister P C Gupta among others.
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