‘CBI probe’ another effort at malicious persecution: Vadra
A day after the Rajasthan government recommended a CBI probe into 18 cases of land deals in Bikaner, Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law and businessman Robert Vadra took to the Facebook to lash out at the authorities’ malice against him.
“Another attempt of malicious persecution, exposed,” Vadra said, as he narrates the earlier attempts to nail him but went unsuccessful.
“First, Rajasthan police filed an FIR on 26 August 2014. In 3 years, they filed the charge sheets, summoned documents, as also company officials, yet found not an iota of evidence,” Vadra posted on Facebook on Wednesday in response to the latest news of probe related to his hospitality firm. “Neither the FIR nor the chargesheets accuse the companies associated with me in any manner whatsoever...H aving failed with the police FIR and chargesheets, they unleashed the Enforcement Directorate to harass. The ED has conducted raids, seized documents and harassed in every possible manner. 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?!” Vadra said.
This is not the first time Vadra hit back at the establishment, without making any direct reference to the Centre or any political party. His latest reaction comes after the new round of probe even after the Rajasthan Police last year cleared Vadra of any wrongdoing. “Please hound, persecute and harass as much as you want, such lies will never undermine the truth,” he wrote.
The state decided to send the cases to the CBI on August 17. “We decided to refer 18 FIRs, four related to Vadra’s company, to the CBI because land was allotted on fake documents and sold multiple times,” Rajasthan home minister Gulab Chand Kataria said.