Robert Vadra | Photo Credit: PTI

Gurugram: An FIR has been filed against Robert Vadra, the owner of Sky Light Hospitality Private Limited, over fraudulent transactions. Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, DLF Company Gurugram and Onkareshwar Properties Gurugram have been booked too. Robert Vadra is the brother-in-law of Congress president Rahul Gandhi.

The FIR was registered from in the Kherki Daula police station of Haryana. The case has been registered against them in Gurgaon, Manesar Deputy Commissioner of Police Rajesh Kumar was quoted as saying by news agency PTI. The complaint was filed by Surinder Sharma.

"We received a complaint today from one Surinder Sharma, a resident of Nuh, in which he alleged irregularities in the land deals," the Manesar DCP said further.

Vadra and former CM Hooda have now been booked under Sections 420 (cheating), 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 467 (forgery), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document) of the IPC, and Section 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

"Election season, increase in oil prices...so let’s divert real people’s issues with my decade-old issue. What’s new?," Robert Vadra was quoted as saying by ANI after the FIR was filed.

Election season, increase in oil prices...so let’s divert real people’s issues with my decade old issue. What’s new?: Robert Vadra's statement on FIR against him (file pic) pic.twitter.com/Ev8ybmNwKR — ANI (@ANI) September 1, 2018

In 2015, a commission was set up by the Manohar Lal Khattar-led BJP government in Haryana to probe into the licenses given by the previous Hooda-led Congress government in the state. The licenses were given for the development of housing colonies and commercial complexes in four villages in Gurugram.