Robert Vadra forged documents for Haryana land deal: IAS officer

Robert Vadra’s land deals in a village in Haryana have returned to haunt the Congress party, with whistleblower IAS officer Ashok Khemka alleging that Vadra “falsified documents” for 3.53 acres of land in Gurgaon and “pocketed” a large premium on a commercial colony license.

In his “voluminous reply” submitted to the Haryana government’s three-member enquiry committee set up in October to look into the deal between Vadra and realty giant DLF, Khemka reportedly alleged that Vadra, who is Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law, executed a series of “sham transactions” for 3.53 acres of land in Shikohpur village of Gurgaon.

Vadra “pocketed” a huge premium on a commercial license through money that he could account for, Khemka alleged.

The IAS officer alleged that Haryana government’s Department of Town and Country Planning “ignored rules and regulations to allow crony capitalists operating as middlemen to flourish and appropriate the market premium of a license.”

“The DTCP aided Vadra in making these sham transactions,” he alleged.

Khemka, who submitted his reply on May 21, says that both the sale deed of February 12, 2008 through which Vadra’s company ‘Skylight Hospitality’ bought land from ‘Onkareshwar Properties’ and Letter of Intent for granting a commercial license to his company issued by DTCP in March 2008 are “sham transactions” made to enable Vadra to collect market premium.

“If there was no payment as alleged in the registered deed, can it be said that the registered deed conferred ownership title over the said land upon Skylight Hospitality by virtue of the sham sale,” he questions.

Khemka, who had cancelled a land mutation deal between Vadra and DLF last October, claims that “there was no promise to pay in the future in the registered deed.”

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