BJP minister Smriti Irani has repeatedly denied any association with the Silly Souls café and bar in Goa, alleged to have been run by her daughter Zoish Irani. But government records obtained under the RTI Act indicate a company linked to Irani’s family took the plot on a 10-year lease to carry out a food and beverage business.
Eightall Food and Beverages, which shares its address with the restaurant and has 75 percent capital investment from firms linked to the Iranis, also paid a monthly rent of Rs 50,000 when the lease agreement was inked on January 7 this year, according to the reply from the state’s information officer of the directorate of food and drugs to an RTI application filed by activist Aires Rodrigues on August 3.
