A Special CBI Court has today granted interim protection from arrest to Robert Vadra in a money laundering case..The interim protection has been granted till February 16..The Special CBI Judge Arvind Kumar was hearing Vadra’s anticipatory bail plea in relation to money laundering in purchasing a property in London worth 1.9 million pound..As a condition, the Court has directed Vadra to co-operate with the investigation and to appear before the ED on February 6. Vadra has also been asked to pay a surety of Rs. 1 lakh and a bail bond of the same amount..Vadra’s alleged aide businessman Manoj Arora is also on interim bail from the Court in connection in the same case..Special Public Prosecutor DP Singh informed the Court that the agency did not wish to file a reply to Vadra’s anticipatory bail plea..“If I say something, it would become news”, he said..Instead, he suggested that Vadra be made to join the probe for now..Singh also stated that the Agency has unearthed the existence of several other properties in London as well which were used for the purpose of money laundering..On being asked about the whereabouts of Vadra, his counsel Senior Advocate KTS Tulsi informed the Court that Varda was currently in London to take care of his ailing mother..Vadra had moved the CBI Court last evening for his anticipatory bail. In his anticipatory bail plea, Vadra, the husband of Priyanka Gandhi who has recently been appointed the General secretary of the AICC (Eastern Uttar Pradesh), has claimed that the case has a colour of political witch hunt..Vadra has further submitted that he is a law abiding citizen, socially active and a family man who is unlikely to abscond..Till now, Vadra informs, he has never been summoned by the investigating agency in the present case.
A Special CBI Court has today granted interim protection from arrest to Robert Vadra in a money laundering case..The interim protection has been granted till February 16..The Special CBI Judge Arvind Kumar was hearing Vadra’s anticipatory bail plea in relation to money laundering in purchasing a property in London worth 1.9 million pound..As a condition, the Court has directed Vadra to co-operate with the investigation and to appear before the ED on February 6. Vadra has also been asked to pay a surety of Rs. 1 lakh and a bail bond of the same amount..Vadra’s alleged aide businessman Manoj Arora is also on interim bail from the Court in connection in the same case..Special Public Prosecutor DP Singh informed the Court that the agency did not wish to file a reply to Vadra’s anticipatory bail plea..“If I say something, it would become news”, he said..Instead, he suggested that Vadra be made to join the probe for now..Singh also stated that the Agency has unearthed the existence of several other properties in London as well which were used for the purpose of money laundering..On being asked about the whereabouts of Vadra, his counsel Senior Advocate KTS Tulsi informed the Court that Varda was currently in London to take care of his ailing mother..Vadra had moved the CBI Court last evening for his anticipatory bail. In his anticipatory bail plea, Vadra, the husband of Priyanka Gandhi who has recently been appointed the General secretary of the AICC (Eastern Uttar Pradesh), has claimed that the case has a colour of political witch hunt..Vadra has further submitted that he is a law abiding citizen, socially active and a family man who is unlikely to abscond..Till now, Vadra informs, he has never been summoned by the investigating agency in the present case.
