Crucial pages still missing in Robert Vadra-DLF deal
Though the state government had ordered an internal probe following Khemka's complaint, it was just limited to the reconstruction of the file.
More than six months have passed since senior Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka had brought to the state government's notice that the first two pages of the important DLF-Robert Vadra land deal had gone missing.
Khemka, who had cancelled the mutation of the said land deal, had written to the then chief secretary, Parveen Kumar Gupta, on December 16, 2014 and had sought registration of an FIR. On Monday, the office of Justice SN Dhingra, appointed to probe shady land deals (including the Robert Vadra land deal) in the state under the previous Congress government, formally started functioning.
"The missing paper story is still a mystery. The report of the internal probe has not been made public. Even six months after when the whistle-blower bureaucrat informed the state government about the missing papers no action has been taken," a highly-placed source told MAIL TODAY.
Though the state government had ordered an internal probe following Khemka's complaint, it was just limited to the reconstruction of the file. Sources told MAIL TODAY that while the missing pages were never traced, the officials managed to reconstruct the file by getting photocopies from other files. While Chief Secretary Depinder Singh Dhesi was not available for comment, MAIL TODAY spoke to Additional Chief Secretary (Town & Country Planning Department) P Raghavendra Rao, who denied that such papers were missing from his office file.
"To the best of my knowledge, no such papers were reported missing from our file," Rao said. Khemka, in his complaint, had said, "The file noting is a very important piece of record which would establish that the three members were specifically appointed to an illegally constituted committee by the then political executive with the predetermined objective to accord a clean chit to the black-marketing of colony licence by M/s Skylight Hospitality, a company belonging to Robert Vadra, and to discredit my action of cancelling the land mutation from M/s Skylight Hospitality to M/s DLF.
The noting sheets sought are likely to have been stolen by vested interests to avoid scrutiny of the wrongdoings of some officers posted at that time in the chief ninister's office." Khemka had termed the three-member committee illegal and had said the file containing the missing notings was illegally sent to RS Doon, then Deputy Principal Secretary to the CM, and BR Beri, then OSD to CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda.