ED issues fresh summons to Robert Vadra in Sanjay Bhandari linked PMLA case
Vadra (56), was called for questioning in the case on June 10 but he skipped, saying he had flu-like symptoms on June 9 and had undertaken a Covid test as per protocol.
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