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The Delhi High Court connected Tuesday (January 6, 2026) directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to record its effect to a petition by erstwhile Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav challenging a proceedings tribunal bid framing charges against him successful the alleged IRCTC scam case.
The tribunal issued announcement aft proceeding submissions from Mr. Yadav’s counsel, who argued that the framing of charges was “mechanically done” without due appreciation of grounds and that the allegations were politically motivated and lacked worldly to prolong charges of transgression conspiracy oregon corruption.
Mr. Yadav, presently the Leader of the Opposition successful Bihar, was named successful the CBI’s supplementary chargesheet successful 2022.
The lawsuit arises from a First Information Report registered by the CBI successful 2017 against Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad, his household members, officials of the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation, and others. The bureau has alleged that Mr. Prasad, during his tenure arsenic Union Minister for Railways betwixt 2004 and 2009, entered into a transgression conspiracy with the owners of definite hotels successful Patna and Puri, manipulated the tender process and awarded contracts successful speech for bribes successful the signifier of precocious worth onshore and shares.
The proceedings tribunal here, portion framing charges successful October past year, held that Mr. Prasad had abused his presumption arsenic the past Railway Minister to manipulate eligibility conditions successful the tender process and framed charges against him and his household members.
The proceedings tribunal further observed that Mr. Prasad was afloat alert of the alleged scam and had intervened to power the matter, adding that his actions caused losses to the nationalist exchequer.
