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New Delhi: A Delhi tribunal connected Wednesday took cognisance of charges against businessman Robert Vadra successful a wealth laundering lawsuit linked to the Shikohpur onshore woody successful Gurgaon, directing him and 8 different accused to look connected May 16, reports Koushiki Saha.ED's prosecution ailment (equivalent to a chargesheet), filed successful July 2025, characterised the woody arsenic a blase strategy to make and furniture proceeds of crime, with Vadra arsenic the main beneficiary. Vadra has denied immoderate wro-ngdoing, calling the lawsuit "political vendetta" against him and his family, including his wife, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, erstwhile Congress president Sonia Gandhi and person of absorption successful Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.Besides Vadra, summonses were issued to Kewal Singh Virk, Skylight Hospitality LLP, Sky Light Realty Pvt Ltd, Real Earth Estates LLP, Blue Breeze Trading LLP, North India IT Parks LLP, Lambodar Art Enterprises India LLP and SGY Properties Pvt Ltd (previously Onkareshwar Properties Pvt Ltd). The court, however, did not summon different accused, Satyanand Yajee, saying determination was nary worldly to proceed against him.
The lawsuit stems from a Feb 2008 transaction successful which Skylight Hospitality, wherever Vadra was earlier a director, purchased 3.5 acres of onshore successful Shikohpur for Rs 7.5 crore. The institution sold the onshore to DLF for Rs 58 crore successful Sept 2012.Additional sessions justice Sushant Changotra, portion examining ED's prosecution complaint, underscored the "very narrow" scope of enquiry astatine this stage, saying the tribunal was lone required to broadly scrutinise the documents and fulfill itself that prima facie, determination were "sufficient grounds for proceeding further with the case".The tribunal noted that Vadra, arsenic the "major shareholder and superior director/partner", had allegedly played an progressive relation successful offences nether sections 3 and 4 of PMLA.
