Bikaner Land scandal: ED attaches assets worth Rs 4.62 crores of Robert Vadra’s company and others

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached assets worth Rs 4.62 crores of M/s Skylight Hospitality, a company linked to Robert Vadra, brother-in-law of Congress President Rahul Gandhi. Assets of others allegedly involved in the Bikaner, Rajasthan land scam have also been attached.

The Rajasthan Police had registered 18 FIRs on charges of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy and filed charge sheets in all the cases against accused accused Jai Prakash Bagrwa and ten others in August 2015 and March 2017.

As a sequel to FIRs registered by Rajasthan Police a case was registered by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in September, 2015.


The agency claims that its investigation has revealed that the Central Government had acquired land of as many as 34 villages in Bikaner District for the purpose of establishment of Mahajan Field Firing Range (MFFR). State Government proposed for rehabilitation of the displaced people by providing land equivalent to their acquired land.

Accused Jai Prakash Bagrwa and others allegedly in cahoots with the State Government Officials got 1422 Bigha Government land illegally allotted to fictitious persons in guise of scheme of State Government meant for people displaced due to establishment of MFFR and illegally sold 1372 bigha out of this land to various persons/companies.

On detection of fraud, the said land was recorded back as government land in state revenue records.

ED alleges that in furtherance of sale/ purchase, the said lands were further sold by subsequent purchasers to individuals and companies and all these subsequent sellers of the disputed land generated a considerable amount of profit. These fraudulently generated profit by these entities is nothing but proceeds of crime as defined under PMLA.

As per ED, Robert Vadra’s company M/s Sky Light Hospitality (P) Ltd had purchased 275 Bigha (69.55 Hectare) fraudulent land for Rs 72 Lakhs and sold the same for Rs 5.15 Crores to M/s Allegeny

Finlease (P) Ltd and illegally generated profit of Rs 4.43 Crores. Besides Vadra, four other individuals had also generated profit of Rs 18.59 Lakhs in sale of land fraudulently, the ED alleges.

The agency today has attached assets of Vadra’s company to the tune of Rs 4.6 crores. The attached

assets include movable assets amounting to Rs 18,59,500 belonging to four individuals and one immovable property situated at Sukhdev Vihar, New Delhi.