Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka hit the headlines in October 2012 when he pointed to irregularities in a land deal between Sonia Gandhi's son in law Robert Vadra and real estate giant DLF. Khemka has always acted as a whistleblower of sorts and has been transferred 44 times, last week he was again transferred from his post for exposing a scam in the purchase of fungicides. ...
11:29 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Both the Houses of Parliament had to be adjourned twice on Tuesday after the Opposition took on the government over Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's land deals. Questions have earlier been raised over Vadra's land deals in Haryana and Rajasthan. ...
12:17 PM, Mar 12, 2013
The Allahabad High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition by a local activist seeking a probe into allegations of irregular land dealings against Robert Vadra levelled by Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal. The petition, filed by Nutan Thakur on October 9, 2012, was dismissed by the court's Lucknow bench of justices Uma Nath Singh and Virendra Kumar Dixit. ...
05:31 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Senior Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who kicked up a political storm in 2012 when he alleged irregularities in the land dealings of Robert Vadra and DLF in the state, has asked the state government to give him a copy of the inquiry reports conducted by it. ...
03:55 PM, Jan 14, 2013
New Delhi: Congress on Thursday dismissed BJP's criticism over the Prime Minister's Office's affidavit that the allegations regarding irregular land dealings between Robert Vadra and real estate major DLF "appear to be false, based on hearsay and vexatious". "BJP comments without knowing. It's not possible that the Prime Minister's Office will file an affidavit without any basis. PMO files an affidavit only after proper information," party spokesperson Rashid Alvi told...
09:28 PM, Nov 29, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Thursday hit out at Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra over alleged land scam, saying that the Prime Minister's Office can't be used to shield corruption. "Haryana and Rajasthan governments helped Vadra. How can PMO be used to shield corruption?" BJP's Chief Spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said. He was reacting to the PMO's reply to Allahabad High Court in the Vadra case. The PMO...
04:19 PM, Nov 29, 2012
BJP parliamentary board has decided to give ticket to the controversial former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah. ...
09:15 PM, Nov 28, 2012
New Delhi: In yet another defence of Robert Vadra, The Prime Minister's Office has told Allahabad High Court that charges of irregularities in land deals against Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law are false, vexatious and based on hearsay. "Petition is driven by a desire for publicity and seems to be actuated by political considerations rather than public interest. It was unnecessarily dragged into the case through this petition in Allahabad High Court,"...
07:49 PM, Nov 28, 2012
Both Congress president son-in-law Robert Vadra and BJP president Nitin Gadkari have been facing corruption allegations but the parties have given them a clean chit refuting all the charges. But are these clean chits credible. ...
11:42 PM, Nov 14, 2012
New Delhi: India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal is all set to make yet another revelation on Friday. But there is still no word on who his latest target will be. In the past month, Kejriwal has targetted Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's land deals, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid in an alleged embezzlement case and BJP President Nitin Gadkari in an irrigation scam. In his last revelation, Kejriwal also...
07:36 AM, Nov 09, 2012
Chandigarh: Senior Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who kicked up a political storm when he alleged irregularities in the land dealings of Robert Vadra and DLF in the state, on Friday said that he had got two threat calls within a fortnight and accused the police of not taking any action. Late in the night, the Haryana police said it has arrested one person who allegedly made a threat call...
11:32 PM, Nov 02, 2012
Chandigarh: Senior Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who claimed to have got two threat calls within a fortnight, on Friday, questioned the functioning of the state police over its alleged failure to nab the caller. "The Panchkula ACP calls me and tells me that she will take my statement...I fail to understand why police is taking time to identify the caller...police is wasting precious time...it is unprofessional on the part...
06:10 PM, Nov 02, 2012
Even as Kejriwal made his 'startling disclosures' on Reliance controlling the Government, came news from China that Premier Wen Jiabao has accumulated billions from various ...
05:06 PM, Nov 01, 2012
Chandigarh: Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka's staff have lodged a police complaint after receiving threat calls against him. Khemka had been in the news after he ordered scrutiny of Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's land records with real estate major DLF. The police have initiated a probe into the threat calls. Earlier Ashok Khemka's friend had also claimed that he recived death threats. Anupam Gupta said that Khemka...
10:22 AM, Nov 01, 2012
Former Chief Justice of India JS Verma has sought a probe into Digvijaya Singh's claim of having evidence of graft against relatives of BJP leaders AB Vajpayee and LK Advani, saying it was "very disturbing" and indicated a "conspiracy of silence" at the top. ...
09:27 PM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Sunday ducked questions over the allegations levelled against the land deals of her son-in-law Robert Vadra. Gandhi ignored questions put to her on the allegations levelled against Vadra by India Against Corruption led by Arvind Kejriwal. Vadra is under attack from several parties, including the BJP, in the wake of allegations levelled by the IAC over irregularities in land deals in Haryana. Haryana...
06:56 PM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: Former Chief Justice of India, JS Verma has hit out at the political class saying that politicians are colluding with each other against the fight to end corruption. While speaking to Karan Thapar on this week's Devil's Advocate, he accused the politicians of conspiring to tolerate corruption at the highest level. Below is an excerpt of the interview: Karan Thapar: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh said to this...
07:59 AM, Oct 28, 2012
Jaipur: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the India Against Corruption (IAC) have almost dared the Ashok Gehlot government in Rajasthan to probe the land deals of Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra, which was reported by CNN-IBN. The political reactions began pouring in just hours after CNN-IBN broke the story on Vadra's multiple lands deals in Rajasthan through an investigation showing over 20 massive land purchases in Bikaner....
10:45 PM, Oct 27, 2012
It wasn't just Haryana where Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra went on a land buying spree between 2008 and 2011. At least 20 plots measuring over 770 hectares were picked up by Vadra's firms in Bikaner, months after the Ashok Gehlot government assumed power in the state. According to property agents in Bikaner, the land was barren and worth precious little at the time Vadra purchased it. However, ...
03:41 PM, Oct 27, 2012
New Delhi: IAC activist Arvind Kejriwal has likened Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's land deals in Rajasthan to convict Rajat Gupta's insider trading in the US. He says both Ashok Gehlot and Bhupinder Hooda will be compelled to give a clean chit to Vadra if they have to survive. CNN-IBN: CNN-IBN broke this story yesterday that Robert Vadra had land deals not just in Haryana but also Rajasthan...
12:09 PM, Oct 27, 2012
