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The Delhi High Court is apt to perceive connected Monday (January 5, 2026) the petition of RJD person Lalu Prasad Yadav against a peculiar court’s bid framing charges against him and his woman Rabri Devi, lad Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, and 11 others successful the alleged IRCTC scam case.
The erstwhile Union Railway Minister had precocious moved the High Court assailing the order.
According to Court sources, the substance is listed for proceeding earlier Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma connected January 5.
Earlier connected October 13, the Court had framed charges of cheating, transgression conspiracy, and sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act against the accused persons.
It had made a scathing reflection that the onshore and stock transactions successful the lawsuit were “possibly an lawsuit of crony capitalism fostered successful the garb of eliciting backstage information successful the Railways' hotels astatine Ranchi and Puri.”
Besides Mr. Lalu Yadav, the Court had framed charges against Pradeep Kumar Goel, Rakesh Saksena, Bhupendra Kumar Agarwal, Rakesh Kumar Gogia and Vinod Kumar Asthana nether Section 13(2) work with Section 13(1)(d)(ii) and (iii) of the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act.
Section 13 (2) deals with the punishment for transgression misconduct by a nationalist servant, and Section 13(1)(d)(ii) and (iii) with maltreatment of presumption by a nationalist servant to get favours.
The Court had besides directed that the complaint beryllium framed nether IPC Section 420 (cheating) against Lalu Prasad, Rabri Devi, Tejashwi, M/s LARA Projects LLP, Vijay Kochhar, Vinay Kochhar, Sarla Gupta, and Prem Chand Gupta.
"A communal complaint is directed to beryllium framed against each (14) accused nether conception 120B (criminal conspiracy) IPC work with conception 420 IPC and conception 13(2) work with conception 13(1)(d)(ii) and (iii) PC Act," the tribunal had said.
The maximum punishment nether the PC Act is 10 years, portion for cheating is 7 years.
