'Process of cancelling land rights granted to Vadra's firm started'

Chandigarh: The Haryana government has begun the process of cancelling the licence given to Robert Vadra's Skylight Hospitality to develop land that was later transferred to realty major DLF for Rs 58 crore, officials said on Thursday.

Director of the state's Town and Country Planning Department K M Pandurang said the procedural formalities to cancel the licence have been completed keeping in with provisions of the Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act, 1975. The formalities include serving notices on the coloniser and giving it an opportunity to be heard.

"We have to follow procedure of cancellation which we are following and the formalities have been completed. We gave them notice and hearing opportunity, which has concluded. Now, we have to take a decision and that process is on," he said.

He said the decision on the land linked to Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, was likely to be taken soon.

Pandurang, however, did not disclose what replies the other party had given in response to the opportunity of being heard.

He said the mutation of the land was set aside by the then director general, consolidation of holdings in 2012, thus affecting the title of the land.