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.