New Delhi: Former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi skipped deposing before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday for the third consecutive time in a money laundering probe in the railway hotels allotment corruption case.
Agency sources said Ms Devi, wife of Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad, failed to appear in the case for the third time after which ED asked her to appear on October 16.
The agency has once again summoned Tejashwi Yadav, Bihar’s former deputy chief minister, for questioning. He was grilled for nine hours by the ED sleuths on Tuesday.
The ED is probing members of Mr Prasad’s family and others under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
In July, the CBI had lodged a criminal FIR and conducted multiple searches against Mr Prasad, who is also a former Bihar chief minister, and others.
The CBI FIR alleged that Mr Prasad, as Union 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 one Sarla Gupta. It had earlier questioned the wife of former UPA minister P.C. Gupta among others.
