Robert Vadra taunts Rajasthan government over land scam investigation

NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra taunted the Rajasthan government, saying it can "hound" and "harass" him, but still won't find any evidence of him being involved in any land scam in the state.

"Please hound, prosecute and harass as much as you want, such lies will never undermine the truth," said Vadra, in a Facebook post.

The Rajasthan government was reported to have asked the CBI for a probe into an alleged land scam in Bikaner, involving one of Vadra's firms.

Rajasthan home minister Gulab Chand alleged on Tuesday that Vadra's company was a third party in the "illegal" purchase of 275 bigha land in 2010, before going on to sell that land to a fourth party in 2012.

In the post, Vadra said that this was another attempt to "maliciously persecute" him, by the Rajasthan government.

"Another attempt of malicious persecution, exposed. First, Rajasthan police filed an FIR on 26 August 2014. In 3 years, they filed the chargesheets, summoned documents, as also company officials, yet found not an iota of evidence," said Vadra.


He said that after the FIR and related investigations "they unleashed the Enforcement Directorate to harass and hound."

Vadra said this was an indication that the Rajasthan government had lost faith in its police and other law-enforcing authorities.

The Rajasthan government's request to the CBI is another "sinister attempt" to target him, said Vadra.

"As they fail, they make one more sinister attempt to rope in the CBI. Has the Rajasthan government lost faith in its own police and investigation ?!" said Vadra's Facebook post.