Officer who cancelled Vadra-DLF deal transferred

NEW DELHI: The controversial, Rs 58-crore real estate deal between realty major DLF and Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra was cancelled by a senior Haryana government official who was later transferred, media reports allege.

Robert Vadra is said to have purchased land in Haryana for just Rs 7.5 crore and sold it for a whopping Rs 58 crore.

Reports said that Ashok Khemka, an IAS officer in Haryana's Land Registration Department, was transferred for cancelling 'the mutation of a 3.531 acre plot of land in Manesar-Shikohpur' which Vadra had sold to DLF for Rs 58 crore back in 2009.

Khemka was shunted out as Director General of the Haryana Seed Development Corporation, just a few days after he ordered an investigation, on October 8, into the controversial land lead.

Claiming that there were irregularities in the transfer of the said land from Vadra's Sky Light Hospitality Private Limited to DLF, Khemka - just before he left office -- had ordered the cancellation of the mutation on October 15.

Television channel CNN-IBN said that it had accessed the document ordering the cancellation of the mutation of land. The channel said that the land deal in allegedly had signatures by an unauthorised Haryana official.

It has been alleged in the media that Vadra purchased premium apartments in DLF projects from the proceeds of this land sale.

Activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal too had accused Vadra and DLF of financial irregularities in the land deal.

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I suppose this is what the government means when they say the law will take its own course.

This officer has been transferred and they person who replaces him will erase all evidence of wrong-doing and then the government will issue a statement there was nothing wrong in the deal.

It is now clear that Kejriwal and his candidates have to be brought into power to clear the entire corrupt system.