Sonia Gandhi's son-inlaw Robert Vadra used fake documents to acquire land - India

Robert Vadra used fake documents to acquire land, claims IAS officer Ashok Khemka

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Gurgaon: Senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka has reportedly alleged that Robert Vadra, businessman and Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law, used false registration documents to execute a series of sham transactions for the sale of 3.5 acres of land in Gurgaon to real estate giant DLF for Rs. 58 crore.

Mr Khemka, who was controversially transferred by the Haryana government in October last year, three days after he cancelled the mutation of Mr Vadra's deal with DLF handed a 100-page report to the state government in May this year and the details have become public now.

The timing is embarrassing for the Congress, which has been battling various scandals just months before it makes an attempt to win a third straight term at the centre in general elections now months away.

The IAS officer has alleged Mr Vadra received sweetheart deals from the Congress government, which has been in power in Haryana since 2004. A government committee in March this year, however, concluded Mr Vadra's deal with DLF in 2008 was fair and legal. In reply to the conclusions drawn by the committee, Mr Khemka's report allegedly says that the Haryana government had shown "undue haste" in issuing a commercial colony licence to Mr Vadra.

The senior bureaucrat reportedly alleges in his report that Mr Vadra's company, Sky Light Hospitality Private Limited, did not make any payment through a Corporation Bank cheque of Rs. 7.5 crore as mentioned in the registration certificate for the land in Shikohpur village of Gurgaon, adjacent to Delhi.

Mr Khemka, who was Inspector General, Registrations in Haryana when he was transferred, had ordered an inquiry to determine if Mr Vadra, who owned property in different parts of the state, had been sold land at discounted prices.

"The Congress will soon have to open a factory of clean chits the way it's going," BJP spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi told NDTV today.

Mr Khemka has alleged that unauthorised officials had signed off on the mutation of the land from Mr Vadra to DLF; he also raised questions about why the government appeared to have bent the rules for Mr Vadra, processing his Change of Land Use (CLU) application at lightning speed and licensing him to build a commercial housing project on his plot of 3.5 acres. That license, granted to Mr Vadra added such dramatic value that four years later, DLF paid Rs. 58 crore for the land.