<p class="title">Former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi on Saturday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) here in connection with a railway hotels allotment corruption case, official sources said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rabri Devi, the wife of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, has reached the ED zonal office in the state capital.</p>.<p class="bodytext">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).</p>.<p class="bodytext">Lalu Prasad was the railway minister in the UPA-I government.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Her appearance before the central probe agency today comes after she skipped similar summonses at least six times.</p>.<p class="bodytext">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.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The ED has earlier questioned Rabri Devi's son Tejashwi Yadav, the former deputy chief minister of Bihar, twice in this case.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In July, the agency registered a case against Lalu Prasad, his family members and others under various provisions of the PMLA.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Before that, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered a first information report and conducted multiple searches on the properties of Lalu Prasad and others.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The CBI FIR alleged that Lalu Prasad, during his tenure as the railway minister in the UPA-I government, handed over the maintenance of two Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) hotels to a company in 2004 after receiving bribe in the form of a prime land in Patna through a 'benami' company owned by Sarla Gupta, the wife of Prem Chand Gupta, a former Union minister.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The ED registered the criminal case against his family members and others under the PMLA, based on the CBI FIR.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The CBI has already recorded the statements of Tejashwi and Lalu Prasad in this case.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The ED is investigating the alleged "proceeds of crime" generated by the accused, purportedly through shell companies, according to the officials.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Others named in the CBI FIR include Vijay Kochhar, Vinay Kochhar (both directors of Sujata Hotels), Delight Marketing company, now known as Lara Projects, and the then IRCTC managing director P K Goel.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The CBI FIR was registered on July 5 in connection with favours allegedly extended to Sujata Hotels in awarding a contract for the upkeep of the hotels in Ranchi and Puri and receiving premium land as "quid pro quo". </p>
<p class="title">Former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi on Saturday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) here in connection with a railway hotels allotment corruption case, official sources said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rabri Devi, the wife of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, has reached the ED zonal office in the state capital.</p>.<p class="bodytext">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).</p>.<p class="bodytext">Lalu Prasad was the railway minister in the UPA-I government.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Her appearance before the central probe agency today comes after she skipped similar summonses at least six times.</p>.<p class="bodytext">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.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The ED has earlier questioned Rabri Devi's son Tejashwi Yadav, the former deputy chief minister of Bihar, twice in this case.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In July, the agency registered a case against Lalu Prasad, his family members and others under various provisions of the PMLA.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Before that, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered a first information report and conducted multiple searches on the properties of Lalu Prasad and others.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The CBI FIR alleged that Lalu Prasad, during his tenure as the railway minister in the UPA-I government, handed over the maintenance of two Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) hotels to a company in 2004 after receiving bribe in the form of a prime land in Patna through a 'benami' company owned by Sarla Gupta, the wife of Prem Chand Gupta, a former Union minister.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The ED registered the criminal case against his family members and others under the PMLA, based on the CBI FIR.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The CBI has already recorded the statements of Tejashwi and Lalu Prasad in this case.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The ED is investigating the alleged "proceeds of crime" generated by the accused, purportedly through shell companies, according to the officials.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Others named in the CBI FIR include Vijay Kochhar, Vinay Kochhar (both directors of Sujata Hotels), Delight Marketing company, now known as Lara Projects, and the then IRCTC managing director P K Goel.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The CBI FIR was registered on July 5 in connection with favours allegedly extended to Sujata Hotels in awarding a contract for the upkeep of the hotels in Ranchi and Puri and receiving premium land as "quid pro quo". </p>