The Pahalgam terror attack may have overshadowed it and put things on hold for now, but the day may not be far when the Tihar jail authorities have to make special arrangements for their new VIP guests—the Gandhi family.

Before the Pahalgam incident, things were moving swiftly. The ED summoned Robert Vadra for two days of questioning over his alleged role in a lucrative Haryana land deal, where he reportedly made a neat profit of Rs 50.5 crore. He had bought 3.5 acres in Shikohpur village in February 2008 for Rs 3.5 crore and sold it to real estate giant DLF in September 2012 for Rs 58 crore.

So what? Business is about making money, and Vadra was already an entrepreneur before marrying Priyanka Gandhi, though he dealt in metals back then and then shifted to land only after the Congress party came to power in 2004. But the Shikohpur deal had a catch. Either he had a premonition or prior knowledge that land prices around the village would skyrocket due to some future policies of the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government in Haryana.

Vadra’s questioning was followed by the ED seeking a Delhi court’s permission to question the Congress party’s first family, Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, in the National Herald case. Legally, a court notice is required before taking cognisance of the chargesheet filed against them and........

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