Massive landslide in Arunachal Pradesh, key highway connecting China border washed away
The highway washed away in the landslide was the only route connecting Dibang Valley to the rest of India.
statesman news service
Chandigarh, 11 August
The Haryana government today gave a clean chit to Robert Vadra in the land deal with DLF and accused whistleblower and former IAS officer Ashok Khemka of making false allegations and presuming “imaginary figures” to sensationalise a “non-existent” issue.
In a statement, a spokesman of Haryana&’s Department of Town and Country Planning (DTCP) denied all allegations levelled against it by Mr Khemka as “wrong and misleading”.
Mr Khemka had accused the DTCP of helping Mr Vadra, Sonia Gandhi&’s son-in-law, in making ‘sham transactions’ related for a prime plot in Gurgaon.
Without naming Mr Khemka, the spokesman said the allegations made by the officer in his reply to an inquiry committee probing the matter have “already been examined in detail” and the government “did not find anything wrong in grant of license or renewal” to Mr Vadra. “There is not an iota of truth in these allegations,” he said.
Denying “sham” documents were used in the deal, the department maintained “standard procedure” had been followed for grant of license to Mr Vadra&’s firm, Skylight.
“The sale deed and mutation by which Skylight became the owner of the land in question is valid even today and nobody has challenged the same till date” the spokesman said.
Giving a clean chit to “exchange of sale consideration” between Mr Vadra and DLF, the Department of Town and Country Planning said, “It is a matter between private parties”.
“It is reiterated that no fake papers were submitted to the department as alleged,” the statement noted, adding there was no revenue loss incurred by the government as stamp duty and registration charges were paid as per law on execution of the sale deed.
The department also denied allegations of favouring Mr Vadra&’s firm in issuing the license for setting up of a commercial colony The spokesman also denied Mr Khemka&’s allegation that the DTCP created a black market for trading in licenses.
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