‘Not Afraid’: Spouse Priyanka By His Aspect, Robert Vadra Reaches ED Workplace For Land Case Questioning – News18

Final Up to date:April 16, 2025, 12:28 IST

56-year-old Vadra had termed the ED motion “misuse” of businesses by the BJP-led central authorities

Businessman Robert Vadra on Wednesday reached the workplace of Enforcement Directorate (ED) for the second consecutive day in reference to Gurugram land case.

Vadra arrived on the ED workplace together with his spouse and Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. The 2 have been seen sharing a hug earlier than Vadra entered the workplace.

Earlier right this moment, Vadra, who was questioned by the central company on Tuesday as properly within the case, stated he’s not afraid of anybody.

“Hum kisi se darte nahi hai…We’re the goal as a result of we’re related. Whether or not Rahul Gandhi is stopped within the Parliament or I’m stopped exterior. We’re the goal for certain however we’re not the gentle goal, we’re the exhausting goal,” he informed ANI.

Vadra, the businessman brother-in-law of Chief of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, was questioned for about 5 hours on Tuesday and his assertion was recorded by the federal probe company beneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA), PTI reported citing official sources.

56-year-old Vadra had termed the ED motion “misuse” of businesses by the BJP-led central authorities.

“I used to be stunned seeing the second summon from the company as I’ve already appeared 15 occasions earlier than the company relating to the identical case. I used to be questioned for 10 hours, and I gave 23,000 paperwork…I confirmed my statements from 2019 to the company that you’re asking the identical questions that I answered in 2019, and the individuals of the company have been additionally shocked. I can simply say that the businesses are being misused,” he stated.

“…When this investigation was finished in Haryana, the administration discovered that there was nothing unsuitable. Khattar ji gave me a clear chit in the identical case. I fail to know why am I being questioned after 7 years once more,” he stated.

What Is Land Deal Case?

The probe in opposition to Vadra is linked to a land deal in Haryana’s Manesar-Shikohpur (now sector 83) in Gurugram.

The land deal of February 2008 was finished by an organization named Skylight Hospitality Pvt Ltd, the place Vadra was a director earlier, because it bought a 3.5 acre land in Shikohpur from a agency named Onkareshwar Properties at a value of Rs 7.5 crore.

A Congress authorities led by chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was in energy that point.

4 years later, in September, 2012, the corporate bought this 3.53 acre land to realty main DLF for Rs 58 crore.

The land deal bought into controversy in October, 2012 after IAS officer Ashok Khemka, then posted because the director normal of Land Consolidation and Land Information-cum- Inspector-Normal of Registration of Haryana, cancelled the mutation of this categorising the transaction as violative of state consolidation Act and a few associated procedures.

The opposition Haryana BJP then had referred to as this case an occasion of “corruption” in land offers and that of “nepotism” hinting at Vadra’s kinship with the primary household of the Congress celebration.

Haryana Police had filed an FIR to probe this deal in 2018.

Vadra has been questioned a number of occasions by the federal probe company in two completely different cash laundering circumstances earlier.

(with PTI, ANI inputs)