Gurgaon, Jan 12: IAS officer Ashok Khemka has sought certain documents relating to the land deal between Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's company and the real estate giant DLF.
The inquiry committee, set up by the Haryana government to look into the land deal, which was cancelled by Khemka, had not sought his comments before finalising the report, says an Indian Express report.
In a letter to Chief Secretary PK Chaudhery, Ashok Khemka, has sought directions for Town and Country Planning department to supply him various documents, including (1) policy for issue of license (conditions required to be fulfilled by the applicant seeking license); (2) application of Skylight Hospitality Ltd (including Letter of Intent dated March 28, 2008; License No LC 1868A issued on December 15, 2008; (3) Renewal of license on January 18, 2011 and permission to sell the license on April 3, 2012); (4) name of DG and Principal Secretary of TCP department at the time of renewal of license (January 18, 2011).
Khemka further demanded “documents supplied by Skylight Hospitality Ltd to the TCP informing the department about entering into an agreement-to-sell with DLF Universal Limited on or before June 3, 2008 and receiving sales consideration from DLF Universal Ltd.”.
Khemka also demanded that the TCP department should submit him a “list of other cases where the TCP granted or renewed license after the applicant had entered into an agreement-to-sell and received some amount as part-sale consideration before the grant or renewal of the license”.
“I was the one who had cancelled the mutation. The government constitutes a committee, which has submitted its report without even asking me. I have now asked for certain documents, so that I can assist the government”, Khemka told The Indian Express.
The questions that remain to be answered are:
(1) When was the consideration amount of Rs. 7.50 crore actually paid by M/s Skylight Hospitality to the vendor as claimed in the registered sale deed no. 4928 dated February 12, 2008?
(2) Was the cheque No 607521, dated February 9, 2008 of Corporation Bank, issued by the vendee a dummy cheque?
3) Was any action taken against the vendee and vendor under Section 82 of the Registration Act, 1908, in case of incorrect statement before the Sub-Registrar that payment was made by cheque no. 607521 dated February 9 ,2008 of Corporation Bank issued by the vendee?
In his letter to chief secretary PK Chaudhary, Khemka raised doubts over Vadra's Corporation Bank cheque (No. 607251) issued in favour of Onkareshwar Properties to buy 3.53 acre land in Gurgaon's Shikhopur village (sale deed No. 4928) in 2008.
Khemka asked whether the Rs 7.5-crore cheque issued by Vadras was a dummy. When was the amount actually paid by Vadra's company Skylight Hospitality to Onkareshwar Properties, asked Khemka.
Later, Vadra had sold the land to DLF for Rs 58 crore. But the then director general of land consolidation department Ashok Khemka cancelled the mutation of the Vadra-DLF land deal on October 15, 2012.
