Robert Vadra, DLF case: Probe is cover up of 'gargantuan land scams', says Ashok Khemka
Senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka has termed Haryana's decision to set up a panel to probe his orders to cancel mutation of a land deal between Robert Vadra and real estate corporate DLF as a "cover up to the gargantuan land scams", and sought relevant file notings from the state government.
Four days after the high-level panel submitted its inquiry report into the cancellation of mutation of 3.5 acre of land in Gurgaon, Khemka stood his ground on his findings in the controversial deal.
In a letter to Haryana Chief Secretary P K Chaudhery on Monday, Khemka, who had as Director General of Consolidation of Holdings, cancelled the mutation of land deal between businessman Robert Vadra and real estate giant DLF, wrote that his orders under Sec 42 of East-Punjab Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 1948, were "quasi- judicial and final."
Currently, MD of Haryana Seeds Development Corporation, Khemka has also sought a copy of the government order constituting the inquiry committee, its terms of reference and relevant file noting pages constituting the panel.
On being contacted, Khemka said the committee is a "sham to justify possible action against me as a cover to the gargantuan land scams".
"All this kind of humiliation and mental torture is to break me down psychologically," he claimed, adding that "vested interests" in the government have "pre-judged" the matter.
He said he is surprised that the affected individual or the corporate house is "not ostensibly aggrieved."
In his letter Khemka said, "the remedy for the affected party is to
