Probe dealings of firm owned by aide of Gehlot's son: Somaiya

BJP leader Kirit Somaiya today alleged that a foreign company had bought at an exorbitant rate shares of a loss-making firm run by an associate of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's son and demanded a probe into it, but the Congress dismissed the charge as "baseless".

The BJP national secretary told reporters here that a Mauritius-based company had bought thousands of shares of Rs 100 each at the rate of Rs 40,000 per share of the Indian firm, which needed to be investigated.

The state Congress dismissed the charges as baseless.

"The allegations are absolutely baseless and misleading which shows that BJP has lost self control," PCC vice president Rajiv Arora said.
 

"Somaiya has so far made many allegations but could not prove any of them," he said in a statement released by the party office.

"Why the Mauritius-based company paid such a high rate for a loss-making company and whose money is this should be investigated. It should be cleared whether it is a case of money laundering from Mauritius," he said.