Businessman Robert Vadra, the husband of Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi and brother-in-law of Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, has been summoned for questioning today by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case linked to a 2008 Haryana land deal.
The ED served the summons today; Mr Vadra is yet to show up at the federal agency's office in central Delhi.
Mr Vadra was questioned in the case for about 16 hours over three days in April in an ED action that he had termed a "political witch hunt" against him and his family.
The deal at the centre of the ED case against Mr Vadra is about a land in Haryana that was bought by his company, Skylight Hospitality, in 2008 for Rs 7.5 crore. Its value spiked after Mr Vadra obtained a permit to develop a housing society on the land. In 2012, he sold it to DLF for Rs 58 crore.
With the Congress in power in Haryana at that time, the BJP accused them of stealing the land from farmers to give to Mr Vadra.
Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who was then the Chief Minister, had denied the allegation. "The Congress did not give even an inch of government land to Robert Vadra. If the BJP shows proof, I will leave politics," he had said when the BJP raised the issue again before last year's assembly elections.
