Enforcement Directorate summons Robert Vadra in land deal case

New Delhi, Nov 30 The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Robert Vadra in the Bikaner land deal case on Friday.

The case relates to a land in Kolayat region of Rajasthan's Bikaner area which was meant to be alloted to those uprooted because of the armed force's Mahajan field terminating range. The ED had enrolled a criminal case under the PMLA in the issue in 2015 taking cognisance of FIRs documented by the state police after the nearby Tehsildar had griped of alleged forgery.

Vadra has been denying any wrongdoing even as the Congress had called the activity "sheer political vendetta".

The Rajasthan government had in January 2015 dropped the mutation (transfer of land) of 374.44 hectares of land, after the land department claimed to have found that the allotments were made in the names of "illegal private people".

The Tehsildar had said in the complaint that the government land in 34 villages of Bikaner, to be used for expanding the Army's firing range in the area, was "got" by the land mafia by preparing "forged and fabricated documents" in connivance with government officials.

ED speculates that huge money was laundered for this case by people buying land at cheap rates through forged documents.

The state government had, while dropping the transformations, said these were not issued by the Commissioner, Colonization, Bikaner.

The state police had also filed charge sheets in the 18 cases in a court in Kolayat.