PATNA: Three members of RJD chief Lalu Prasad ’s family on Wednesday left for Ranchi and Delhi to appear before special courts in two different cases.

While RJD president and fodder scam convict Lalu Prasad reached Ranchi from Patna to surrender before a special CBI court at Ranchi on Thursday as per the Jharkhand high court’s order, his wife and former Bihar CM Rabri Devi and their son Tejashwi Prasad Yadav left for Delhi to appear before a special court as accused in the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) tender scam.

The Jharkhand high court had on August 24 refused to extend the provisional bail of Lalu and had asked him to surrender by August 30 before the special CBI court. “I have full faith in the judiciary. Though I am not fully recovered from various ailments, I will be surrendering before the special court at Ranchi on Thursday in connection with the Jharkhand high court’s order,” Lalu told reporters at Patna airport before leaving for Ranchi on Wednesday afternoon.

Hours before Lalu, Rabri Devi and Tejashwi also left for Delhi, where they will be appearing before a special court at the Patiala House on August 31 following a charge sheet lodged by the CBI in the IRCTC tender scam.

Earlier on July 30, the Patiala house court’s special judge Arvind Kumar had summoned Lalu Prasad, his wife Rabri Devi and son Tejashwi Yadav and nine others and directed them to appear before the court on August 31 as accused in the IRCTC tender scam.

As Lalu would be appearing before the Ranchi-based special court on August 30, he may not reach Delhi’s Patiala house court on August 31 to appear in the IRCTC case.

As Rabri and Tejashwi have already been charged, the court will decide whether they will get bail after their appearance on August 31 or will have to go to jail.

Earlier on April 16, the CBI had filed charge sheet against altogether 14 persons including former railway minister Lalu Prasad, Rabri, Tejashwi, former union minister Prem Chand Gupta, his wife Sarla Gupta and others in connection with alleged corruption in handing out a contract for two IRCTC hotels to a private company owned by a Patna-based hotelier.

The case is related to the allegations that Lalu Prasad, as railway minister, handed over the maintenance of two hotels run by the IRCTC, a subsidiary of the Indian Railways, in Ranchi and Puri to Sujata Hotels, a company owned by Vinay and Vijay Kochhar, allegedly in return for a prime land near Patna through a ‘benami’ firm- the Delight Marketing Company- then allegedly owned by Prem Chand Gupta and his wife.

