NEW DELHI: Controversial preacher Zakir Naik ’s NGO Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) had allegedly offered a second donation of Rs 25 lakh to Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust (RGCT) in December 2011, months after it donated Rs 50 lakh that is already in the public realm.Documents seized during raids on Naik’s now outlawed outfit show that it had wanted the Rs 25 lakh donation to RGCT to be routed via Mumbai-based M H Saboo Siddique Maternity and General Hospital, but the hospital ended up utilizing the money itself after IRF kept vacillating on who should be the end beneficiary. Besides RGCT, it had also recommended Allahabad-based Kamla Nehru Memorial Hospital Society, and KARM, an NGO in Mumbai.Significantly, according to resolutions passed by IRF in June-July and November 2011, the two donations of Rs 50 lakh and Rs 25 lakh were extended to RGCT on the basis of applications received from the trust which has Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi on its board of trustees. This contrasts with Congress’s claim, made when the Rs 50 lakh donation became public, that it never solicited donation from IRF. RGCT did not respond to TOI’s queries based on the documents in its possession.When contacted, IRF spokesperson Arif Malik said that given that all premises of the NGO had been sealed in view of NIA raids “IRF does not have access to its records and hence cannot check donations made in the past”.As per documents with TOI, in case of both the donations, applications were received from RGCT, New Delhi, and placed before IRF’s board of trustees.The papers show that IRF, at a meeting of its trustees in November 2011, passed a resolution stating that applications for medical and educational aid was received from M H Saboo Siddique Hospital, RGCT and Bandra Education Society.The meeting resolved to donate Rs 5 lakh to the hospital as medical aid and Rs 5 lakh to the society as educational aid. It “further resolved that Rs 30,00,000 be donated to M H Saboo Siddique... hospital out of which they should retain Rs 5,00,000 and further donate Rs 25,00,000 to RGCT.” According to the documents, Rs 30 lakh was given to the hospital vide cheque No.964635 dated December 19, 2011.While RGCT did not respond to queries sent by email, honorary medical director of M H Saboo Siddique Hospital Abdul Rauf Sumar confirmed receipt of Rs 30 lakh donation from IRF with the instruction that Rs 25 lakh be passed on to RGCT. He claimed that as asked by IRF in a letter dated December 15, 2011, the hospital had written a Rs 25 lakh cheque to RGCT.“But IRF got back to us on March 19, 2012, asking us to make the cheque in favour of Kamla Nehru Memorial Hospital Society instead. They again revised the instruction and asked us on July 16, 2012 to credit the Rs 25 lakh donation to KARM. Ultimately, however, the money remained with us and we utilised it for our own charitable activities,” he said.Sonia Gandhi is chairperson of the Kamla Nehru Memorial Hospital Society.According to Sumar, no reason was assigned by IRF to change the beneficiary of the Rs 25 lakh. “In fact, we wondered why the payment was routed through us and not passed on directly to the intended beneficiary,” he said.