CAG report vindicates my stand, says Khemka

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 26

Whistleblower IAS officer Ashok Khemka said today that his action in the Vadra-DLF land licence deal had been “vindicated in the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India report but he continues to suffer the stigma of chargesheet.”

“My action in Vadra-DLF land license deal vindicated in CAG report, but continue to suffer the stigma of chargesheet,” said Khemka in a tweet.

During the Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led Congress government, the official had ordered the scrapping of the land deal between Skylight Hospitality Private Limited (owned by Robert Vadra) and DLF, terming it as illegal. However, the previous Hooda government gave a clean chit to Vadra in the land deal.

In another tweet, he said: “Real culprits sit in judgement over me. My pain and suffering may help to detox and cleanse the body politic.”

In his third tweet, Khemka, currently posted as State Transport Commissioner, said: “Black-marketing of licences and permits to cronies is loot of public wealth. Will action be taken against the black-marketers?”

“Undue favours” to builders, including Robert Vadra’s Skylight Hospitality, by the previous Hooda Government has come under attack from the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India.

In its report for the year 2013-14, tabled in the Haryana Assembly yesterday, the official auditor has come down heavily on the Town and Country Planning Department.

“....the department neither at the time of granting in-principle approval nor at the time of formal approval for transfer of licenses ensured that net profit beyond 15 per cent of the total cost accrues to the public exchequer. “This enabled the developers to earn huge profits merely by selling the land while the government had to forgo sizeable amount,” the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India report said.

Though the report did not name Vadra, his company, Skylight Hospitality, was named. Skylight Hospitality, the report noted, sold a prime 3.5 acre piece of land at Manesar in Gurgaon district to DLF in 2008 for Rs58 crore.

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Black marketing of licences and permits to cronies is loot of public wealth. Will action be taken against the black-marketers?

Real culprits sit in judgement over me. My pain and suffering may help to detox and cleanse the body politic

My action in Vadra-DLF land license deal vindicated in CAG report, but (I) continue to suffer the stigma of chargesheet