DLF-Vadra Land Deal: Foul Play Suspected As Two Pages From Deal Files Reported Missing

IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who came into limelight over the controversial DLF-Robert Vadra Deal, has said that two pages from the files pertaining to the deal are missing. He also demanded registration of an FIR in this case. This came to light after an RTI filed by him revealed that two pages from the files related to the controversial deal are missing.

Chief Secretary PK Gupta accepted that the pages are indeed missing. He also said that an inquiry has been ordered and officials are trying to “reconstruct the file.”

"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, where the only remedy to an aggrieved party was to file a writ petition in High Court, with the pre-determined objective to accord clean chit to black-marketing of colony license 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," Khemka alleged in a letter written to the Haryana’s chief secretary.

The chief secretary said, "This is a fact that one page of the file is missing, which is two numbers - 1 and 2. I have seen this filed on Friday itself and this page is missing. For this we are instituting an inquiry...if somebody is guilty, we will take action."

"We are trying to reconstruct the file because I think it was six-seven months back somebody asked for information under RTI, somebody other than Khemka. He had asked for information and that information was given to him...We are approaching the Information Commissioner's office to see if a copy of that is available with that office," he said.

"This is serious, now there can be no scrutiny of the matter as to how Krishna Mohan, KK Jalan and Rajan Gupta became members, what were the terms of reference and what occasioned the constitution of the committee when the parties were not aggrieved against my orders and the only remedy against the order was to approach the High Court," Khemka wrote.

The previous Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led Congress government in Haryana had set up a committee to look into the controversial deal after Khemka cancelled mutation of the land deal. IAS officers Krishna Mohan, KK Jalan and Rajan Gupta were part of the committee. Krishna Mohan has now retired.