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Haryana IAS officer Khemka transferred again
Thursday April 04, 2013 11:20:19 PM,
IANS
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Chandigarh:
Senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who had ordered a scrutiny of
land deals of UPA chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra,
was Thursday transferred by the Haryana government to an
inconsequential post.
Khemka, now managing director of the Haryana Seeds Development
Corp (HSDC), will now be 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 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 (IAS) officer.
He hit national headlines in October last year when he cancelled a
mutation of a multi-crore-rupee land deal between Vadra's company
Sky Light Hospitality and realty giant DLF.
The officer 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 Oct 8, the Hooda government went into an
overdrive to undo it. Within days, the district authorities of
four districts gave a "clean chit" to the land deals done by Vadra
and his companies.
The Hooda government set up a committee of bureaucrats to look
into the action taken by Khemka. The committee held that Khemka's
actions as director-general of land consolidation were not in
accordance with laid down procedures.
Khemka questioned the rationale of the committee in submitting its
report without even seeking his views on the action taken in the
land deals.
An unfazed Khemka also claimed that action taken by him as
director general of consolidation could only be reviewed by the
high court and the state government did not have the jurisdiction
to undo it.
Khemka was removed from his post Oct 11 by the Hooda government,
which sought to project it as a routine transfer.
Vadra and his companies had made land purchases of nearly 170
acres in Gurgaon, Palwal, Mewat and Faridabad districts since
2005.
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