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Ashok was shifted from his position ashead of Haryana's land
registration department on October 11 for blowing the whistle
on
the relationship between Robert Vadra and realty chief DLF, who
had the support of
politicians and civil servants in Haryana. His transfer orders
were hand delivered by a
dispatch clerk. This was just three days after the officer
hunted a list of Vadra's land deals
in Gurgaon, Mewat, Faridabad, and Palwal, the districts that
were highlighted in thenews.
Ashok directed deputy commissioners in the four districts to
assemble a list of documents
registered by Vadra or on his behalf, starting from January,
2005. Soon Ashokestablished how Vadra-owned Skylight Hospitality
bought a 3.53 acre plot from farmers
of Shikhopur village in February 2008. Skylight had paid 7.5
crore for this plot. Vadra's
company was then granted change of land use (CLU) licence to use
2.7 acres of theagricultural plot for residential housing in just
about a month in March, 2008.
Less than four months later Vadra resold the property to DLF
Universal for Rs 58 crore.Khemka says the only value Vadra's
companies added to the land were the CLU licence,which led to a
six-fold increase in the value of the land.
Soon Khemka's interest was put out bymedia reports that said
other Vadra-owned firms Skylight Realty, Blue Breeze Trading,
Real Earth Estates, Artex and North India IT Parks were
following a similar technique.
Agricultural land was being bought, the land use converted and
then resold to real estatecompanies.
