Senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka Senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka

The whistleblower IAS officer of Haryana cadre - Ashok Khemka - might soon be sent on a central deputation, sources told Headlines Today on Tuesday.

The Union Cabinet secretary has made a recommendation to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) to transfer the 1991-batch IAS officer, who took on the son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi - Robert Vadra - and cancelled some shady land deals involving him and real estate giant DLF, from Haryana to the central government.

The PMO has also cleared Ashok Khemka's name and the communication is being sent to the Haryana government.



Khemka, who was even lured by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to join the political outfit in the run up to the general election, was recently charge-sheeted by the Haryana government on various charges.

In the charge-sheet it was alleged that the IAS officer went beyond his jurisdiction to cancel the land deals between DLF and Vadra. The charge-sheet had also stated that Khemka tried to defame Vadra.

On the other hand, Khemka has maintained that the state government has been targeting him as he exposed corruption in land deals involving Vadra.

Khemka has been transferred around 50 times in his nearly 23-year career.