‘Let Haryana go to court if Vadra order is wrong’

Senior Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who cancelled the mutation of 3.5 acre of land of Robert Vadra to realty major DLF, said any aggrieved party - government or parties to the deal - could approach the court if they felt aggrieved with his recent order.

Khemka met Haryana chief secretary P K Chaudhary here on Thursday for about 50 minutes- his first meeting after the recent controversy arising out of his order and his subsequent transfer from the post of director general of consolidation.

Speaking to reporters after meeting the state chief secretary, Khemka, who signed the order on the last day of his stint in the registrations department, denied there was anything wrong in his order. The top IAS officer expressed satisfaction over the grounds for his transfer as conveyed to him by the chief secretary.

Earlier, the town and country planning head T C Gupta had claimed Khemka’s order cancelling the mutation of the land deal contained ‘factual inaccuracies’ and had been passed in ‘total disregard of administrative propriety’.


THE KHEMKA ANGLE

• Ashok Khemka was Haryana’s director general of Land Consolidation and Land Records cum inspector general of Registration
• He was transferred 11 Oct, just three days after he ordered a probe into the DLF-Vadra land deal
• Before moving out of his post, Khemka on Monday cancelled the mutation of the prime plot in Manesar area of Gurgaon that was sold by Vadra’s firm to DLF for Rs.58 crore
• The opposition are of the opinion that transfer of Khemka was an official move, while the Congress says the transfer was as per court orders