New Delhi: Robert Vadra, the brother-in-law of Congress president Rahul Gandhi, has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate on Thursday, for a fresh round of questioning in cases related to forceful land acquisition in the National Capital Region and Rajasthan’s Bikaner, besides some benami properties abroad.

The ED is probing Vadra for purchase of benami properties — a villa in Dubai’s Jumeirah worth Rs 14 crore and a flat in London’s Bryanston Square worth over Rs 26 crore — for which he has been questioned several times in the past.

Details of alleged benami transactions behind the purchase of the Jumeirah villa and the London flat were shared with him during three days of questioning at ED’s Delhi office in February. When asked to explain the source of huge cash deposits in Skylight Investment FZE, a company resembling his own Skylight Hospitality Pvt Ltd operated in India, Vadra refused to acknowledge the money trail.

The agency has approached the Delhi HC seeking cancellation of Vadra’s anticipatory bail so that he does not have protection from arrest. The High Court will hear the matter on July 17 when Vadra and his close associate Manoj Arora will also reply to the notice issued against them by the court.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing ED in the court, said Robert Vadra was not cooperating in the investigation and the trial court had not discussed the gravity of the offense in its order.

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