NEW DELHI: A Delhi court framed Monday charges against former railway minister Lalu Prasad , his wife Rabri Devi, son Tejashwi Yadav , and 11 others in the alleged IRCTC scam that rigged railway hotel contracts for favoured private players. Rabri and Tejashwi prima facie emerge as participants in the criminal conspiracy of which Lalu Prasad was seemingly the "fountainhead", Special Judge Vishal Gogne said. The "individual strands of the cheating" between 2005 and 2014 were "intrinsically interwoven" with a larger network of collusion among multiple accused, he added. According to CBI , when Lalu was railway minister between 2004 and 2014, two BNR Hotels of railways - in Ranchi and Puri - were first transferred to IRCTC and then leased to Patna-based Sujata Hotels through a mani

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