Robert Vadra gets a clean slate in Haryana land scam
27 Oct 2012 6:09 AM IST
Four Haryana bureaucrats have given Robert Vadra, Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law, a clean chit in land purchases over the last few years and said the deals were transparent.
Official sources here confirmed that the deputy commissioners of Gurgaon, Faridabad, Mewat and Palwal have said that there was no ‘wrong-doing’ in the land purchases done by Vadra and his companies.
IAS officer Ashok Khemka had asked the DCs of the four districts 12 Oct to inquire into Vadra’s land deals in their areas since 2005.
They were also asked to see if the purchase of the land had been undervalued to evade stamp duty. Khemka, who was director-general, consolidation, then had sought the report by 25 Oct. The sources said that Vadra had made the land purchases in a ‘transparent’ manner and had paid the stamp duty as per the prevailing collector rate in each district.
‘Vadra, in fact, in some cases paid much more stamp duty than the value under the collector rate,’ a revenue official said.
Official sources here confirmed that the deputy commissioners of Gurgaon, Faridabad, Mewat and Palwal have said that there was no ‘wrong-doing’ in the land purchases done by Vadra and his companies.
IAS officer Ashok Khemka had asked the DCs of the four districts 12 Oct to inquire into Vadra’s land deals in their areas since 2005.
They were also asked to see if the purchase of the land had been undervalued to evade stamp duty. Khemka, who was director-general, consolidation, then had sought the report by 25 Oct. The sources said that Vadra had made the land purchases in a ‘transparent’ manner and had paid the stamp duty as per the prevailing collector rate in each district.
‘Vadra, in fact, in some cases paid much more stamp duty than the value under the collector rate,’ a revenue official said.
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