CHANDIGARH: Haryana government seems adamant on not providing any documents related to the land deal between UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi 's son-in-law Robert Vadra and DLF to IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who had cancelled the mutation of the deal on October 15, 2012.

In a recent letter to state chief secretary P K Chaudhery, Khemka said, "No department has provided any of the requested information so far." The government had on March 1 asked Khemka to submit his comments on a probe report by a three-member panel on Khemka's orders cancelling the Vadra land deal's mutation.

Following this, Khemka had sought documents from revenue, town & country planning and industries and commerce departments but the government did not provide any documents to the officer.

"It's like asking someone to run a 100-metre dash with his hands tied behind. My morale is high and I will run the race despite my hands and legs being tied," Khemka told TOI. Khemka, as director general of land consolidation department in 2012, had cancelled the mutation just three days after he asked deputy commissioners of four districts to inspect all documents related to land deals registered on behalf of Vadra or his companies.

The government's inquiry committee had indicted Khemka for passing "hasty orders without due legal examination of the background of the case". However, Khemka termed the report as "an attempt to defend the land licensing transaction of the companies owned by Vadra".

The government on March 20 again asked Khemka to submit his comments by March 31. Next day, Khemka wrote back to inform the state chief secretary that no department supplied information to him. "I would tender my comments thereafter without brooking any delay," said Khemka requesting for documents.

Without providing any document, the state government on April 12 again asked him to submit his comments within a week. Khemka was recently transferred to archives department from Haryana Seed Development Corporation.

