New Delhi: A PIL has been filed in Delhi High Court against Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra demanding criminal investigation against him over alleged land and other corruption related charges. The matter is likely to come up for hearing in the court on Wednesday.
This comes after Priyanka Gandhi for the first time responded to allegations against her husband saying that she will fight the insults. Addressing an election meeting in Raebareli on Tuesday, she hit back at the Opposition for dragging Vadra's name in the election campaign.
"Many things are being said about my family, my husband. I feel sad the way humiliating things are being said. The more I will be humiliated, more will be my determination to fight," she said while admitting that she had learned from her grandmother Indira Gandhi not to be deterred by such statements.
"Such attacks give me more determination to fight for the Congress party," she said.
The BJP, however, stepped up the attack on Vadra saying that Priyanka is "defending the undefensible".
Asserting that the "corrupt will not be spared" once a BJP government comes to power, party vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi had earlier said that there will be a probe against Robert Vadra.
Earlier in mid-2013, senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka had alleged that Vadra "falsified documents" for 3.53 acres of land in Gurgaon, Haryana and took a large premium on a commercial colony licence. In his "voluminous reply" submitted to Haryana government's three-member inquiry committee set up in October 2013 to look into the deal, Khemka is understood to have alleged that Vadra executed a series of "sham transactions" for it.
Vadra was later accused of inking illegal land deals in Rajasthan. He was accused of buying acres of land from farmers for as low as Rs 20,000 an acre. The Congress denied the charges.
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