Rabri Devi appears before ED in railway hotels allotment case

Former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi on Saturday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a railway hotels allotment corruption case, official sources said today.

Rabri Devi, the wife of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, has reached the ED zonal office in the state capital.

A special team of the agency from Delhi is expected to question her and record her statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act



(PMLA).

Lalu Prasad was the railway minister in the UPA-I government.

Her appearance before the central probe agency comes after she skipped similar summonses at least six times. It is understood that the agency allowed her request to be questioned in Patna and not in Delhi, where the criminal case has been registered.

The ED has earlier questioned Rabri Devi’s son Tejashwi Yadav, the former deputy chief minister of Bihar, twice in this case.