GURGAON: Raman Sharma, the RTI activist who went missing last week, had approached the lokayukta in July for an investigation into third party inspection certificates that were allegedly issued for advance dates to a HUDA contractor.

The same contractor, Brij Gopal Construction Company, filed an extortion case against Sharma in Faridabad on September 24. The activist, who lives in Malibu Towne, went missing on September 26.

But while the contractor has accused Sharma of blackmail, an internal probe by HUDA has found that inspection certificates for master sewerage works were indeed issued in advance.

On Monday, HUDA’s Gurgaon administrator Anita Yadav sent memos to officers seeking an explanation how such certificates could have been issued.

According to Sharma’s daughter Vyoma, who shared with mediapersons the email sent by the RTI activist to the President, Prime Minister, chief minister and director general of police before he went missing, HUDA officers connived with the contractor in a Rs 1,200-crore fraud in construction of master storm water and sewerage drains.

Sharma, in his email, has claimed that HUDA engineers gave undue favours to the contractor company for the allotted work, including construction of the Badshapur drain.

Along with the email, Sharma has attached copies of the third party inspection reports that he obtained through RTI pleas. Sharma has alleged 16 reports were issued for advance dates, between October and December 2015.

“The inspection report for dates that are yet to come cannot be actual and I doubt fictitious reports have been procured from the third party inspection team, which is a serious matter. Therefore, you are directed to explain the position immediately…and if the reports are fraudulent and fictitious then fix responsibility also so that disciplinary action can be initiated against the defaulters,” Yadav wrote in one of her memos to the engineers.

When contacted, Yadav said, “It is a very serious matter if they have overlooked such fictitious inspection reports and let them pass. I have asked the officers to report to me by Tuesday, else disciplinary action will be initiated against them.”