Fresh trouble for Lalu Yadav: CBI files case against RJD chief, family; conducts searches at 12 locations

In a fresh trouble for Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief and former Railway Minister Lalu Prasdad Yadav, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday registered a case against him on the allegations of awarding the tender for development, maintenance and operation of Hotels at Ranchi and Puri to a Private Company dealing with Hotels in the year 2006.

The CBI has also registered a case against the Lalu Yadav's wife, son, then MD, IRCTC, a Private person, two Directors of Private Company, a Private Marketing Company and unknown in the same.

The BNR Hotels are heritage hotels of the Railways which were taken over by the IRCTC from the public transporter earlier in the same year.​

Searches are being conducted at 12 Locations including Delhi, Patna, Ranchi, Puri and Gurgaon.

These raids have comes weeks after income-tax department searched locations in New Delhi and adjoining areas in regard with corruption charges against Yadav?s daughter Misa Bharti and her husband Shailesh Kumar. ​