Justice SN Dhingra has by his own admission submitted a voluminous 182-page report indicting Robert Vadra and former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, amongst others, of wrongdoing with regards to grant of licences and land allotment to Skylight Hospitality Private Limited, the private firm owned by the latter.
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A person close to Justice Dhingra said, “I think the report will expose all the politicians and bureaucrats”.
Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had alleged that out-of-turn favours were extended by the Haryana government to a Gurgaon-based charitable trust headed by Dhingra after he was appointed head of the Commission past year.
The Vadra controversy is based on a 3.5-acre plot in Gurgaon that he bought in 2008 for Rs 7.5 crores and sold just months later for 58 crores to India’s largest real estate developer, DLF.
Reacting to the report, Congress alleged political conspiracy and said that the commisson’s intent was to defame rather than examine facts.
Urging the State government to make the report public, the Congress said portions of it were leaked to the media to malign Vadra.
Reiterating that he gave “no undue favours” to anyone, Hooda said that the probe should be held by a sitting judge of the High Court.
Official sources said the commission examined records of over 100 Change of Land Use (CLU) licences given in Gurgaon district, particularly in Sector 83. The commission had the mandate to probe the circumstances of the grant or rejection of the licences for the development of colonies, group housing societies and commercial complexes in those sectors of Gurgaon for which lands in the areas of Shikohpur, Sikanderpur, Badah and Kherki Dhaula were used.
It was mandated to probe their subsequent transfer or disposal, allegations of private enrichment, ineligibility of beneficiaries under the rules, and other connected matters.
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BJP had made the land deals under the previous Congress government in Haryana a major poll issue during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, alleging rules were relaxed to favour a few including Vadra. A report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) had already pointed out irregularities in such deals. In the case Justice Dhingra summoned neither Vadra nor the Ashok Khemka, who was the whistleblower in his case and tried to cancel the deal, which according to him was a corrupt deal.
