Ashok Khemka Says Morality Demands to Start at Top with Courage

IAS officer Ashok Khemka had cancelled the land deal mutation between Robert Vadra and real estate giant DLF Universal Ltd in October 2012, as a "sham sale",and that is investigated by Haryana government's three-member enquiry committee, and he wanted another criminal investigation required to establish the truth. 
  
Onkareshwar Properties and Mark Buildtech Properties, are the two central pin wheel in Robert Vadra DLF deal. These marked companies are part of the "shell company nexus", working from  one address for multiple set of companies, incorporated and formalised officially to complete some fishing deal, with mostly fake or dummy persons as the directors and owners, with very negligible real net worth (such companies may be easily compared to the bogus shell companies which artificially comply with all the formalities on records in tax heaven Mauritius), while the huge deal in crores are covered by borrowed money from friends or associates. 

The above two front companies were part of such deal making adjustment companies, where Kartikeya Sharma,the son of former Congress minister Vinod Sharma, was the director and owner with 99% shareholdings, while both the companies were registered on the same flat in Nehru Place, New Delhi.

IAS officer Ashok Khemka's report demands an independent enquiry to be instituted to ascertain, that what prompted Onkareshwar Properties to oblige Robert  Vadra's Skylight Hospitality in making the deal. According to him the deal of purchasing the 3.5 acres of land by Skylight Hospitality in Shikorpur village in Gurgaon in February 2008 was a "sham sale". Here the importance of real net worth of involved buyer, the huge amount of deal on records, source of finance to complete the deal for the records, as all  are allegedly stage managed and false entries.

IAS officer Ashok Khemka's has submitted the "voluminous reply" report to Haryana government's three-member enquiry committee set up in October 2012 and he has estimated the land-licensing scam over the past eight years to any thing between Rs 20,000 crore to Rs 3.5 lakh crore. It is alleged that during the period between 2005 and 2012, the department of town and country planning had issued various types of colony licences for a total of 21,366 acre.

He said that the charge he made that the purchase of 3.5 acres of land by Skylight Hospitality in Shikorpur village in Gurgaon in February 2008 was a "sham sale", was based on an "inference" which needs to be further proved by "criminal investigation." 

Defending his action in the controversial land deal in Gurgaon involving Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra,the bold IAS officer Ashok Khemka said morality demands one starts at the top and that requires guts and courage. During an interview he boasted,"If you have to take action, the morality should start from the top, right at the top. It is very easy to take action with the people who are downtrodden, but it takes courage and guts to call a bluff a bluff when it happens at the top,".

Ashok Khemka denied that he has acted in haste or out of vendetta, and challenged, "Please hold another enquiry and if I am wrong you can pillory me but you cannot pillory me because in favour of an accused and in favour of a person who has acted dutifully."

More skeleton coming out from Ashok Khemka's Report Cupboard

The purported report filed by IAS officer Ashok Khemka is possibly said to contain the  allegation that "VVIPs" gained land worth crores after panchayat land was partitioned to favour a few, as it describes that "Sector 21 of Faridabad that is part of Ankhir estate and by virtue of this partition; some VVIPs managed to corner prime specific khasra numbers worth several crores, abutting the main roads from HUDA Gymkhana Club of Sector 21 to Surajkund and Badkhal Lake."

The   report filed by Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka claims to have detected a "glaring case of misappropriation of 734 acres of panchayat land" worth "several crores" by influential people — including the present chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda's aunt — in village Ankhir of Faridabad district, abutting the HUDA Gymkhana Club, along the Surajkund-Badkhal road.

The said report points out that as deputy commissioner, it was the duty of Praveen Kumar to protect the gram panchayat's interests in the partition proceedings before his subordinate revenue officer, while Praveen Kumar  maintained that there was no irregularity in the partition and added that his mother had purchased the land in 2005 and it was not panchayat land.

Khemka's Fresh Charges Against Robert Vadra's Land Deals in Shikohpur

The IAS officer Ashok Khemka made fresh charges against Robert Vadra's land deals in Shikohpur village of Gurgaon  in Haryana, and alleged that  Haryana's Department of Town and Country Planning ignored rules and regulations to allow crony capitalists operating as middlemen to flourish and appropriate market premium of a license.

Ashok Khemka in his detailed reply, as submitted to Haryana government's three-member enquiry committee that was set up in October 2012 to look into this Vadra-DLF deal, he is understood to have alleged that Vadra executed a series of "sham transactions" for 3.53 acres of land in Shikohpur village of Gurgaon, in which Robert Vadra "pocketed" a huge premium on a commercial license.

He argued 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 only to enable Vadra to collect market premium.

He questioned the logic that if there was no payment as alleged in the registered deed, can it it be said that the registered deed conferred ownership title over the said land upon Skylight Hospitality by virtue of the sham sale. He claimed that there was no promise to pay in the future in the registered deed and no price was paid as claimed in the registered deed.

He pointed that the sale registered in the said deed cannot, therefore, be called a "sale" in true sense of the term, legal or moral and it cannot be said that Skylight Hospitality became owner of the land in question by virtue of sale registered in the deed, and this is why he cancelled the land mutation deal between Vadra and DLF last October 2012 ,and this is all he is understood to have given in his 100 pages detailed report. 

Haryana Chief Secretary P K Chaudhary failed to confirm and refused to speak saying that they are still examining the reply by Ashok Khemka.