Overview
- Principal District and Sessions Judge Dinesh Bhatt issued notice to the CBI on Rabri Devi’s transfer application in the IRCTC case and listed it for December 6.
- The court declined to stay the ongoing CBI trial, which is at the prosecution‑evidence stage and proceeding day to day.
- Notice was confined to the IRCTC plea because other transfer applications did not implead necessary parties, with the ED matters likely needing separate petitions.
- CBI counsel D P Singh said the ED was not made a party to the broader transfer plea, while Rabri Devi’s counsel Maninder Singh said a separate filing for ED cases would follow.
- Charges were framed on October 13 against Lalu Prasad Yadav, Rabri Devi, Tejashwi Yadav and others over alleged irregular IRCTC hotel tenders linked to land transfers.