Robert Vadra's land deal with DLF has culminated in a probe

More than six months have passed since senior Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka brought it to the state government’s notice that the first two pages of the important DLF-Robert Vadra land deal had gone missing.

Khemka, who had cancelled the mutation of the land deal, had written to the then chief secretary, Parveen Kumar Gupta, on December 16, 2014 and sought registration of an FIR.

On Monday, the office of Justice SN Dhingra, appointed to probe questionable land deals (including the Robert Vadra land deal) in the state under the previous Congress government, formally started functioning.

“The missing paper story is still a mystery. The report of the internal probe has not been made public. Even six months after when the whistleblower bureaucrat informed the state government about the missing papers no action has been taken,” a highly-placed source told Mail Today.

Though the state government had ordered an internal probe following Khemka’s complaint, it was just limited to the reconstruction of the file.

Sources told Mail Today that while the missing pages were never traced, the officials managed to reconstruct the file by getting photocopies from other files.

While Chief Secretary Depinder Singh Dhesi was not available for comment, Mail Today spoke to Additional Chief Secretary (Town & Country Planning Department) P Raghavendra Rao, who denied that such papers were missing from his office file.

“To the best of my knowledge, no such papers were reported missing from our file,” Rao said.

Khemka, in his complaint, had said: “The file noting is a very important piece of record which would establish that the three members were specifically appointed to an illegally constituted committee by the then political executive with the predetermined objective to accord a clean chit to the black-marketing of colony licence by M/s Skylight Hospitality, a company belonging to Robert Vadra, and to discredit my action of cancelling the land mutation from M/s Skylight Hospitality to M/s DLF. The noting sheets sought are likely to have been stolen by vested interests to avoid scrutiny of the wrongdoings of some officers posted at that time in the chief ninister’s office.”

Khemka had termed the three-member committee illegal and said the file containing the missing notings was illegally sent to RS Doon, then Deputy Principal Secretary to the CM, and BR Beri, then OSD to CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

FIR registered against land deals

By Ajay Kumar in Gurgaon

With the initiation of the Shiv Narayan Dhingra-committee in Gurgaon, the local police have already registered three separate FIRs pertaining to dubious land transactions against a private developer in Badshahpur police station on Tuesday.

The complaints against Brahma City Pvt Ltd were pending since 2012, after complainants Anuja Jain, Dildeep Singh Sethi and T G Marketing Pvt Ltd levelled serious charges against them.

Despite that, there had been no progress till Dhingra started investigations from Monday.

However, the local police have denied that the FIRs have been registered on the recommendation of the Dhingra committee but sources claim that authorities are reeling under pressure.