Haryana government has given a clean chit to land dealings by Robert Vadra after an inquiry.The land bought in Haryana by Mr Vadra which have been investigated and cleared by the government for being traded at fair prices includes,74 acres in the Hasanpur village 29 acres in Ahikrpuri village ,3.5 acres in Shikohpur near Manesar – the deal that has been cancelled by Mr Khemka and 52 acres in Faridabad.
Mr Vadra has been accused of a slew of malpractices in his real estate transactions in Haryana, primarily by activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal.
Earlier this month, senior bureaucrat Ashok Khemka ordered the Deputy Commissioners of four different districts in Haryana to determine the real value of all land bought and sold by Mr Vadra since 2005. The officer admitted he had been motivated partly by the allegations raised by Mr Kejriwal and the activists who support him and belong to the civil society group India Against Corruption (IAC).
Mr Khemka was transferred three days after he ordered that enquiry. On his last day in office, he cancelled a land deal that Mr Vadra struck with real estate giant DLF. Mr Vadra sold the company's 3.5 acres of land for 58 crore rupees three months after he bought it, earning a whopping 50-crore profit.The value of the land lies in a licence that was given to Mr Vadra that allowed a housing project to be built there.
Mr Khemka, when canceling the deal, suggested that the licence was transferred to DLF without following guidelines, and that the eventual transfer of the land to the developer, which took place earlier this year, was sanctioned by an unauthorised official.