The Income Tax department on Monday visited the house of Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, and recorded his statement in connection with the case against him under Benami assets law, PTI sources said.

Priyanka Gandhi’s husband, Vadra was asked to join the investigation, the PTI sources said, at the office of the income tax department but the investigation was conducted at his home after he cited COVID-19 restrictions. 

A department team has gone to record Vadra’s statement under the provisions of the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act, they said.

Vadra is being probed by the department on charges of alleged possession of some undisclosed assets in the UK.

The Enforcement Directorate too is investigating these charges, under the anti-money laundering law, against the businessman.

Vadra had denied any wrongdoing in the past even as the Congress party had called the action political vendetta.