Court extends Vadra aide’s interim cover

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court Wednesday extended till February 16 the interim protection from arrest granted to Manoj Arora in a money laundering case in which his employer Robert Vadra joined the probe before the Enforcement Directorate.

The relief to Arora was granted as the probe agency informed the court that Vadra has also been granted interim bail till February 16 after he filed an anticipatory bail application and sought time to respond.

The case is linked to allegations of money laundering in the purchase of a Londonbased property – 12, Bryanston Square – worth 1.9 million pounds. The property is allegedly owned by Vadra, brother-in-law of Congress president Rahul Gandhi.

ED had opposed Vadra's anticipatory bail and claimed that he had also got kickbacks in a petroleum deal in 2009.