IRCTC hotels case: Tejashwi Yadav seeks time to appear before CBI

NEW DELHI: Former Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday sought 15 days from the CBI to appear for questioning in a case related to alleged corruption in giving the contract for running two IRCTC hotels to a private firm in 2006, sources



said.

Tejashwi, who was summoned to appear today, sent his counsel who submitted the request seeking time to appear before the investigation team, sources in the agency said.

The contracts were given in 2006 when his father Lalu Prasad Yadav was the Union railway minister.