Rajasthan govt writes to CBI for probe into Robert Vadra''s land deal cases

Jaipur, August 22

The Rajasthan Government has written to the CBI for investigation into Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra’s land deal cases.

The government had cancelled 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 persons".

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 "grabbed" by the land mafia by preparing "forged and fabricated documents" in connivance with government officials.

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ED suspects that huge amounts of money was laundered in this case by people buying land at cheap rates through forged documents.

The state government had, while cancelling the mutations, said these were not issued by the Commissioner, Colonisation, Bikaner.

The state police had also filed charge sheets in 18 cases in a court in Kolayat last year.  —Agencies