First-ever ED charge sheet filed against Robert Vadra
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a charge sheet against Robert Vadra in a money laundering case linked to a land deal in Haryana’s Shikohpur. This is the first time that any probe agency has filed a prosecution complaint against 56-year-old Vadra in a criminal case.
ED also attached 43 immovable properties worth Rs.37.64 crore pertaining to Vadra and his linked entities like Sky Light Hospitality Pvt. Ltd. and others. A provisional attachment order was issued by the agency on Wednesday under the PMLA, said ED officials.
A charge sheet is filed at the Rouse Avenue court in Delhi under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). A total of 11 entities, including Vadra, a firm linked to him named Sky Light Hospitality Pvt. Ltd., Satyanand Yajee, and Kewal Singh Virk, their company Onkareshwar Properties Pvt. Ltd., and some others, have been named as accused, said ED officials.
The ED officials said the charge sheet has been filed against Vadra and some others before a local court under the provisions of the PMLA. He was questioned by the federal investigative agency for three consecutive days in April. The probe against Vadra is linked to the land deal in Haryana’s Manesar-Shikohpur (now sector 83) in Gurugram. The deal of February 2008 was done by a company named Skylight Hospitality Pvt Ltd, where Vadra was a director earlier, as it purchased a 3.5 acre of land in Shikohpur from Onkareshwar Properties at a price of Rs.7.5 crore. Wife Priyanka Vadra was also the Director in Skylight Hospitality and later resigned when controversies started on a dubious land deal with DLF.
A Congress government led by Bhupinder Singh Hooda was in power at that time. Four years later, in September 2012, the company sold the land to realty major DLF for Rs.58 crore. The land deal got embroiled in controversy in October 2012 after IAS officer Ashok Khemka, then posted as the Director General of Land Consolidation and Land Records-cum-Inspector-General of Registration of Haryana, cancelled the mutation of this, categorizing the transaction as violative of the state consolidation act and some related procedures.
The ED is investigating Vadra in two other cases, including one against UK-based arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari and a land deal in Rajasthan’s Bikaner.
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Now formally the entire family is in the dock. Let us see to what extent the screwed up judicial system with the help of the delay artists can keep the, from facing the Music.