Bangalore: In the backdrop of transfer of Haryana IAS officer for probing land deals, former Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde on Thursday asked state and Central governments to leave issue of transfers to bureaucracy. "Issues of transfers should be left to bureaucracy itself without there being any interference whatsoever by central or state governments to curb corruption," Hegde said.
Hegde said there was lot of "discontentment" amongst state and central officers in regard to the transfer policies of their respective government. "The common complaint seems to be that there is no proper policy and transfers are effected at the whims and fancies of the decision-making authority which is mostly influenced by the pressure from the politicians' various hues," he said.
Such transfers are likely to have serious adverse effect on the efficiency of the government itself, Hegde said, adding, "To have an independent attitude and peace of mind, a government servant must have some assured tenure on any post to which he is posted before he is transferred."
Senior Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka was removed as Inspector General of Registration in the wake of his ordering a probe into all the land dealings of Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra in four districts of Haryana....
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02:22 PM, Oct 18, 2012
Chandigarh: Senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who was transferred by the Haryana government after he cancelled the mutation of the sale deed between UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's company Sky Light Hospitality and realty major DLF, has said that anyone who feels his order is "unfounded" is free to go to court against it. Hitting out at Town and Country Planning head TC Gupta, who had defended the...
12:41 PM, Oct 18, 2012
New Delhi: IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who set aside the mutation of a Rs 58 crore worth plot of land sold by Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra to realty giant DLF in 2009, is demoralised as he has received death threats for the first time in his life, said one of Khemka's friends who is also a lawyer. Anupam Gupta said that Khemka had got "serious death threats"....
03:38 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Chandigarh: A senior Haryana IAS officer, who is at the centre of a raging controversy after he was transferred in the wake of his decision to probe alleged undervaluation of properties dealt with by Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, has attacked the decision to transfer him, calling it "demoralising and dehumanising". Significantly, on the last day of his posting as Director General of Land Consolidation and Land...
02:57 PM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: Criticising transfer of an Haryana IAS officer probing alleged undervaluation of properties dealt with by Robert Vadra, BJP on Tuesday said Congress is suffering from an "emergency mindset" and demanded that an impartial inquiry be held into the matter. "Congress is in complete shambles and in doldrums. It is trying to save Robert Vadra. We want an honest and impartial probe into the charges. An honest officer with...
02:28 PM, Oct 16, 2012
A Mahapanchayat is meeting in Manesar to discuss the implications of the cancellation of the mutation of transfer of property between Robert Vadra and DLF. The locals here claim that the plot of land, right on the side of the Jaipur Highway at Manesar-Shikohpur, was sold off at nominal prices. An inquiry has, meanwhile, been ordered in four other districts of Haryana where land is owned by Robert Vadra. ...
12:58 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Senior Punjab and Haryana High Court lawyer Anupam Gupta has said that with the cancellation of the mutation of a land deal between Robert Vadra and DLF, the transfer has fallen into a limbo. "The practical significance is that this transfer of title by Robert Vadra in favour of DLF cannot be acted upon on the ground in the absence of a mutation unless the transfer of title is recognised ...
12:48 PM, Oct 16, 2012
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said that the latest controversy to hit Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, just shows how the Gandhi family abuses power. "This shows the powers of Vadra and the family. A senior officer investigates him and he's transferred. This kind of protection and corruption has to stop. If you mess with the first family of the Congress party, there is a ...
10:47 AM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: A senior IAS officer in Haryana government's Land Registration Department was transferred for reportedly probing undervalued land deals between Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra and real estate giant DLF. However, before leaving office, IAS officer Ashok Khemka on Monday, cancelled the mutation of a 3.531 acre plot of land in Manesar-Shikohpur that Vadra sold to DLF for Rs 58 crore in 2009. Khemka was transferred as...
07:58 AM, Oct 16, 2012
