The Supreme Court today rejected a petition seeking an investigation into the land deals of Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra, saying that the petitioner could not be allowed to destroy the name of a person."In the name of the PIL (Public Interest Litigation), we will not allow you to destroy the name of a person. Merely because someone is linked to a politician, he can't be called as sinner," the court told the petitioner, advocate ML Sharma, today. The plea had also asked the court to undo a government auditor's order to stop the inquiry against licences issued to Mr Vadra's company and other builders in Haryana between 2005 and 2012."Your petition says Haryana government had given licence for 21000 acres, then why are you targeting only one person?" the court asked. The petitioner then withdrew his petition.The court made the observations after the petitioner failed to submit a copy of the Comptroller and Auditor General's letter cancelling the probe.While the Haryana government has declared Mr Vadra's land deal as transparent and legitimate, a senior IAS officer, Ashok Khemka, cancelled one of the deals struck by him with realty major DLF last year. (IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who took on Robert Vadra, asked for more answers)

Mr Khemka says he has been hounded for taking on Robert Vadra. The Haryana government has opened three inquiries against the officer, who was transferred thrice after he nullified the Vadra deal.