The Enforcement Directorate has served third summons on Skylight Hospitality, earlier a private limited company allegedly linked to Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra, seeking documents pertaining to sale-purchase of land at Bikaner in Rajasthan.
The company, through its legal representative, has been given 10 more days to furnish the relevant papers.
The Directorate has again summoned Mukesh Nagar, a resident of Faridabad in Haryana, through whom Skylight Hospitality had allegedly bought 69.55 hectares of land in January 2010. He too has not responded to the ED notice, it is alleged.
The ED had first served summons on Skylight Hospitality Private Limited asking for the papers. In response , a lawyer appeared before the investigators. However, he did not have written authorisation for representing the company.
The agency later found out that the private limited company had been converted into a limited liability partnership (LLP) firm on May 13. The agency again issued fresh summons. However, the documents were not submitted.
The summons have been served in connection with the ED’s money laundering probe related to 18 alleged land-grab cases registered by the Rajasthan police. Based on the police investigations, the State government got the mutation of the land in question cancelled. It turned out that some middlemen got the land meant for displaced farmers, whose properties were acquired for developing a firing range for the Army, allotted in the name of ineligible persons.
The allegedly grabbed land was sold to at least seven companies, including Skylight Hospitality.
In a statement to the media, the company said that it had instituted civil suits for recovery and damages. “Skylight Hospitality Private Limited/Robert Vadra are victims of the original wrongful allotments, fraud and consequent sale of said land to them in Kolayat,” it said.
