The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday told a Delhi court that there was enough evidence to take cognisance of its charge sheet and summon RJD chief lalu Prasad, his wife Rabri Devi and others as accused in connection with the IRCTC hotels allotment money laundering case.
Special Judge Arvind Kumar reserved his order on whether to summon Prasad, his wife, their son former Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav as accused for September 11.
The ED’s special public prosecutor Atul Tripathy told the court that the agency had gathered enough evidence against the accused and had submitted them along with the charge sheet.
“These evidence are enough to take cognisance of the charge sheet and summoned those named in them as accused,” the counsel said.
In the charge sheet filed on Friday, the ED had also named RJD member PC Gupta and his wife Sarla Gupta, a firm lara Projects and 10 others in the prosecution complaint (charge sheet) filed under the Prevention of Money laundering Act (PMlA).