Bikaner land case: ED allows more time to Vadra-linked firm

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has extended by one week the time given to a firm linked to Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, for the submission of documents in connection with its probe into alleged money laundering in a land deal in Rajasthan’s Bikaner district.

Officials said the second summon for the production of documents in this case was set to expire this week, but after the firm sought some more time to comply, the Investigating Officer (IO) of the case allowed it to be done by the next week.

The agency had, on the first occasion, dismissed as “unauthorised” the appearance of a lawyer in response to the notices first sent in this regard last month to the firm Ms Skylight Hospitality.

The notice was sent after the ED had conducted extensive searches in this case in Bikaner district and other places last month and had claimed to have seized a number of documents.

The agency is expected to issue summon to a number of other people and entities involved in the case in the near future, sources said.