New Delhi: A Delhi court granted bail to Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad Yadav, his wife Rabri Devi and their son, Bihar’s deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav in the Central Bureau of Investigations’ Railways land-for-jobs case against them.
Bar and Bench has reported that Special CBI Judge Geetanjali Goel passed the order. Indian Express reported that it has directed all the accused to furnish a bail bond worth Rs 50,000.
The case alleges that Lalu made appointments in the Railways in exchange for land transferred to his family, when he was Union minister from 2004 to 2009.
CBI filed a fresh charge sheet in the case on July 3. This court had summoned Yadav’s family and 14 other accused on September 22.
In late 2022, the CBI reopened another case – related to Railway project allocations – against the Yadavs and others, months after the RJD party entered into the state government in Bihar, after Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) left the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance and formed the government.
The CBI had closed this corruption case in 2021 on the grounds that “no case had been made out of the allegation”.