Chandigarh: Senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who had ordered a scrutiny of land deals of United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra last year, was yesterday shunted by the Haryana government to an inconsequential post.
Khemka, who is managing director of the Haryana Seeds Development Corporation (HSDC), will now be posted as the secretary of Haryana Archives, which is responsible for preserving public and private records in the state.
The latest transfer came after Khemka highlighted irregularities in the HSDC, leaving the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government embarrassed.
Khemka has been transferred almost 45 times in his two-decade-long career as an Indian Administrative Service officer.
He had hit national headlines last October when he cancelled the mutation of a multi-million-rupee land deal between Vadra’s company, Sky Light Hospitality, and realty giant DLF. The officer had even ordered a probe into all land deals done by Vadra and his companies in Haryana’s Gurgaon, Faridabad, Mewat and Palwal districts since 2005.
After Khemka’s action, the Hooda government went into overdrive to undo it. Within days, the district authorities of four districts in the national capital region gave a “clean chit” to the land deals done by Vadra and his companies.
IANS
