A Delhi court on Friday pulled up the CBI for not procuring sanctions from concerned authorities to prosecute former railway minister lalu Prasad Yadav, his wife Rabri Devi and son Tejashwi Yadav, before filing its chargesheet in a graft case related to allotment of IRCTC hotels.
Special Judge Arvind Kumar said the court was to conclude the trial in the case in one year and a lot of matters were pending before it.
The three, along with others, are accused in a case of alleged irregularities in grant of an operational contract of two IRCTC hotels to a private firm.
“You (investigating officer) should have filed a foolproof chargesheet,” the court said when the IO informed that the agency was trying the procure the sanctions to prosecute some present and former public servants.
The agency informed the court that it has already applied for the sanctions to prosecute some accused persons and would soon move applications against some other accused.
“Give me a date. If sanctions are not received by that date, I will pass an appropriate order,” the judge said and posted the matter for further hearing on May 9. The CBI had on April 16 filed a charge sheet against two companies and 12 people in the case.
Besides these three, former union minister Prem Chand Gupta, his wife Sarla Gupta, then group general manager of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) B K Agarwal, who is at present Additional Member of Railway Board, then Managing Director of IRCTC P K Goyal and then IRCTC Director Rakesh Saxena, were also named in the charge sheet.