CHANDIGARH: Terming the land deals of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra in Haryana as a "matter of immense public importance", whistleblower IAS officer Ashok Khemka has urged the state government to make the inquiry report into the case public "instead of selective leakage".
In a communication to state chief secretary P K Chaudhery on Tuesday, the IAS officer said, "I was not associated in any manner by the inquiry committee to assist it, though I had authored several reports on land scams occurring in the state."
Khemka has also sought a copy of the inquiry report. The committee constituted to probe the issues raised by Khemka in his two orders related to Vadra's land deals had submitted its report to the government on December 28.
In one order, Khemka had set aside the mutation of Vadra-DLF land deal stating that the assistant consolidation officer, who had executed the mutation, was not competent to do so while in another order he had asked deputy commissioners of four districts - Gurgaon, Faridabad, Palwal and Mewat - to inspect all documents related to land deals registered from 2005 on behalf of Vadra or his companies.
The probe committee reportedly has given a clean chit to Vadra terming Khemka's order on cancelation of mutation of Vadra's land as "inappropriate and without jurisdiction". However, the government has been silent on the findings of the committee.
In his letter, Khemka said, "Since the order of the state government constituting inquiry committee to inquire into various land scams unearthed by me while working in the office of director general, consolidation of holdings and land records, was not supplied to me, I am neither aware of its terms of reference nor its composition."
Commenting on the media coverage related to the findings of the committee, Khemka in his letter said apparently the inquiry report was provided to media by "some concerned person in the government by design".
Licence renewed when probe panel member headed dept
CHANDIGARH: After three months of constitution of the high-level committee to probe into the land deals of Robert Vadra, it has come to light that the commercial licence issued to Vadra's land was renewed by the town and country planning department when one of the probe panel members - K K Jalan - was heading the department as its principal secretary on January 18, 2011.
Jalan was heading the department from June 23, 2010, to March 21, 2011.
The department had renewed the commercial licence of Vadra's 2.7 acre land in Gurgaon's Shikohpur in 2011. The mutation of this land deal was cancelled by Ashok Khemka on October 15, 2012. When contacted, Jalan claimed the renewal of licence was decided at the director level.
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