Vadra used fake papers to make crores: Khemka

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New Delhi: Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka’s inquiry report into the land deal between a company owned by Robert Vadra and real estate major DLF in Gurgaon has accused Vadra’s firm of forgery, falsification, and sham transactions. The offences, punishable under section 82 of the Registration Act, 1908, can attract “imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both”, the report says.
    In his report to the Haryana government, Khemka has charged Vadra, son-inlaw of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, DLF, and others also with violations of the Indian Penal Code. He has estimates that the land licensing scam of Haryana could be as big as Rs 3.5 lakh crore in the last eight years. To reach this figure, Khemka has quoted
the premium of Rs 15.78/acre earned by Vadra, 
and used this figure for all 21,366 acres of land given under colony licences by the state.
    On February 12, 2008, Vadra’s Skylight Hospitality bought 3.53 acres of land in Shikohpur, in sector 83, Gurgaon, from Onkareshwar Properties for Rs 7.5 crore, then obtained permission to build a commercial colony there. Haryana govt lost crores of stamp duty, says Khemka 
New Delhi: Over the next few months, Vadra transferred the land and permission for the colony to DLF and made a minimum profit of Rs 42.61 crore, according to Khemka.
    “The series of sham transactions, starting from the registration of a deed on 12.02.2008, came to an end with the execution of a sale deed No. 1435 dated 18.09.2012 for Rs 58 crore in favour of DLF Universal Ltd. The land, along with the commercial colony licence, was sold for Rs 58 crore. Such transfers act as the perfect ruse or opportunity for middlemen to milk the market premium arising out of the grant of colony licence,” Khemka points out in his report. 
    Khemka, a 1991 batch IAS officer, was the director general of land records and consolidation of land holdings and inspector general of registration, Haryana, when he ordered cancellation of the mutation of the land deal between Vadra’s Skylight Hospitality and DLF. Khemka was transferred by the state government, which later set up a three-member committee last October to look into his actions on the Skylight-DLF deal. Khemka’s report has now emerged in public through the detailed representation submitted by him to the state’s chief secretary in response to the inquiry ordered against him.
    In his report, Khemka says the capacity of Skylight Hospitality to develop a commercial colony “was nothing else other than Mr. Robert Vadra. The man became the measure of everything and the entire statutory apparatus a castle of sand.” When the company was given the permission to develop a colony, its paid up capital was just Rs 100,000 with two shareholders — Vadra and his mother Maureen.
    Khemka has also accused Vadra and promoters of Onkareshwar Properties, which sold the 3.53-acre plot in Shikohpur, of “wilfully committing” serious offences. Khemka’s report has also alleged that Haryana “lost crores of revenues in the form of stamp duty due to non-registration kof the collaboration agreement”.