'Not Afraid': Wife Priyanka By His Side, Robert Vadra Reaches ED Office For Land Case Questioning

Last Updated:April 16, 2025, 12:28 IST

56-year-old Vadra had termed the ED action "misuse" of agencies by the BJP-led central government

Earlier today, Vadra, who was questioned by the central agency on Tuesday as well in the case, said he is not afraid of anyone. (Photo: ANI)

Businessman Robert Vadra on Wednesday reached the office of Enforcement Directorate (ED) for the second consecutive day in connection with Gurugram land case.

Vadra arrived at the ED office with his wife and Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. The two were seen sharing a hug before Vadra entered the office.

Earlier today, Vadra, who was questioned by the central agency on Tuesday as well in the case, said he is not afraid of anyone.

“Hum kisi se darte nahi hai…We are the target because we are relevant. Whether Rahul Gandhi is stopped in the Parliament or I am stopped outside. We are the target for sure but we are not the soft target, we are the hard target," he told ANI.

Vadra, the businessman brother-in-law of Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, was questioned for about five hours on Tuesday and his statement was recorded by the federal probe agency under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), PTI reported citing official sources.

56-year-old Vadra had termed the ED action “misuse" of agencies by the BJP-led central government.

“I was surprised seeing the second summon from the agency as I have already appeared 15 times before the agency regarding the same case. I was questioned for 10 hours, and I gave 23,000 documents…I showed my statements from 2019 to the agency that you are asking the same questions that I answered in 2019, and the people of the agency were also shocked. I can just say that the agencies are being misused," he said.

“…When this investigation was done in Haryana, the administration found that there was nothing wrong. Khattar ji gave me a clean chit in the same case. I fail to understand why am I being questioned after 7 years again," he said.

What Is Land Deal Case?

The probe against Vadra is linked to a land deal in Haryana’s Manesar-Shikohpur (now sector 83) in Gurugram.

The land 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 land in Shikohpur from a firm named Onkareshwar Properties at a price of Rs 7.5 crore.

A Congress government led by chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was in power that time.

Four years later, in September, 2012, the company sold this 3.53 acre land to realty major DLF for Rs 58 crore.

The land deal got into 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 categorising the transaction as violative of state consolidation Act and some related procedures.

The opposition Haryana BJP then had called this case an instance of “corruption" in land deals and that of “nepotism" hinting at Vadra’s kinship with the first family of the Congress party.

Haryana Police had filed an FIR to probe this deal in 2018.

Vadra has been questioned multiple times by the federal probe agency in two different money laundering cases earlier.

(with PTI, ANI inputs)

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