Robert Vadra's firm Skylight Hospitality gets Income Tax notice

According to a report published in the Indian Express, the Income Tax department has started scrutiny into land deals made by Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress President Sonia Gandhi. Quoting sources, the newspaper says that 'principal officer' of Skylight Hospitality Vadra has been summoned by IT officers on Friday.

Sylight Hospitality's transaction with DLF has been under the scanner for a long time and now they have been asked to furnish “agreements to purchase and sale of immovable properties”  since 2005-06. 

The IT department has sent a 22-point questionnaire to Skylight Hospitality which seeks detailed information about minutes of meetings, the nature of assets, purchase and sale of deeds etc. BJP has called the move by the IT department as an act of natural administrative process to probe cases where windfall profits have been made. Congress presumably has dubbed it as an act of political vendetta. According to Congress leader Manish Tewari, BJP is using state tools to hound political adversaries. 

Robert Vadra has been in the centre of a political slugfest for a long time. During the Lok Sabha elections and during the Haryana Assembly elections recently, Narendra Modi had raised questions on Vadra's land deals to score points over the Gandhi family and Bhupinder Singh Hooda government. Congress has always maintained that Robert Vadra is a private citizen and it is unfair to drag him into politics.