IRCTC rip-off case: Lalu Yadav, Rabri Devi ask Delhi courtroom to not conduct day-to-day trial

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Yadav and his spouse Rabri Devi have filed an software earlier than a Delhi courtroom requesting it to not conduct day-to-day trial of the IRCTC rip-off case through which each are dealing with legal costs.

The software was moved within the courtroom of Special Judge (PC Act) Vishal Gogne who requested the counsel of Mr. Yadav to provide a duplicate of the appliance to the Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI), which is investigating the case, and stated the company could file a response.

During the listening to on Monday (October 27, 2025), the courtroom carried out the chief examination of one of many witnesses produced by the prosecution. The courtroom allowed the accused to do cross-examination at a later stage.

In their software, Mr. Yadav said {that a} whole of 4 legal circumstances are pending in opposition to him and his household and the involved courts have ordered day-to-day hearings in virtually all of them. The software additionally cited the well being situation of the aged couple and the continued Assembly polls in Bihar. They requested the courtroom to postpone the listening to by 4 weeks so they may undergo the 18,000-page-long chargesheet and almost 250 pages of the courtroom order framing the costs.

The matter pertains to an FIR lodged by the CBI in 2017 in opposition to Mr. Yadav, his household, officers of the IRCTC and others. The central company has alleged that Mr. Yadav, throughout his tenure as Union Railway Minister between 2004 and 2009, had entered right into a legal conspiracy with the homeowners of some inns in Patna and Puri. It is alleged that he manipulated the method and awarded tender to the accused individuals in alternate for bribes within the type of excessive worth land and shares.

After completion of the investigation, a chargesheet was filed in opposition to Mr. Yadav and 11 others. 

Noting that Mr. Yadav had abused his place as Railway Minister on the Centre and manipulated the eligibility circumstances of the land tender, this courtroom, on October 13, had framed costs of corruption and legal conspiracy in opposition to Mr. Yadav. Mr Yadav’s spouse and former Chief Minister of Bihar, Rabri Devi and son Tejashwi Yadav have been charged with legal conspiracy and dishonest in the identical case.