New Delhi: Enforcement Directorate on Friday issued a fresh notice to a firm linked to Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, in connection with its probe into an alleged money laundering case related to a land deal in Rajasthan's Bikaner district.
Officials said the summons for production of documents was issued for the second time as the agency had earlier dismissed as "unauthorised" the appearance of a lawyer in response to the notices first sent in this regard last month.
Last week, a lawyer had made appearance before the ED in response to the first notice sent in the case but it was dismissed by the probe agency as "unauthorised" as he was neither carrying any relevant papers nor an authorisation letter from the company about him being their representative.
The agency is expected to issue summons to a number of other people and entities involved in the case in the near future, sources said.
The probe is related to the purchase of 275 bigha land allegedly by the company in the Kolayat area of the border town of Bikaner.
The ED has not mentioned the name of Vadra or any company linked to him in the FIR but it named some state government officials and some of the "land mafia".
While filing the case, it had also taken cognisance of reports that had referred to a firm allegedly linked to Vadra which had purchased some of these Bikaner located lands.
ED had conducted similar searches in the case in Delhi last year.
Rajasthan government had in January last year cancelled the mutation (transfer of land) of 374.44 hectares of land, after the land department claimed to have found that the
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