Bikaner land case: ED issues notice to firm linked to Vadra

Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued a notice to a firm linked to Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, in connection with its probe into alleged money laundering in a land deal in Rajasthan's Bikaner district. Official sources said the notice has been issued to the firm Skylight Hospitality under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The sources said, the company has been asked to submit certain financial statements and other documents to the Investigating Officer by June 24. 

The ED had conducted extensive searches in this case in Rajasthan and other places last month



and had claimed to have seized a number of documents. The probe is related to the purchase of 275 bigha land allegedly by the company in the Kolayat area of Bikaner. The central probe agency had registered a criminal case of money laundering in this case last year on the basis of FIRs filed by the state police after the local tehsildar had made a complaint. 

ED suspects that huge amounts of money was laundered in this case by people buying land at cheap rates through forged documents. The state government had, while cancelling the mutations, said these were not issued by the Commissioner, Colonisation, Bikaner.