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. ...
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BJP parliamentary board has decided to give ticket to the controversial former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah. ...
09:15 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
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
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
BJP core group met on Friday to decide on Nitin Gadkari's future. Robert Vadra made a killing on land bought in Rajasthan. ...
11:31 PM, Oct 26, 2012
BJP president Nitin Gadkari and Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra are facing allegations of corruption. ...
11:01 PM, Oct 26, 2012
BJP leader Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday sought to differentiate and distinguish the party from the Congress saying that the BJP was "definitely different on all yardsticks of probity, morality, and all yardsticks of governance". "We are much much better because we value, value-based politics. We are not here in politics as a mission, not for commission," said Javadekar. He added that there was no question of party president Nitin Gadkari ...
10:26 PM, Oct 24, 2012
Digvijaya Singh had said that even though the evidence of corruption against families of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and LK Advani is enough to embarrass the two leaders, the party would refrain from going public with it. ...
09:31 PM, Oct 22, 2012
Ashok Khemka, who was transferred by the Haryana government after he cancelled the mutation of the sale deed between Robert Vadra's company and DLF, said that anyone who feels his order is "unfounded" is free to go to court against it. ...
09:58 PM, Oct 18, 2012
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11:41 PM, Oct 16, 2012
The Haryana government was forced to order an investigation into the Vadra-DLF Manesar land deal worth Rs 58 crore after Khemka cancelled the land mutation saying it violated the consolidation act of the states. ...
11:32 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Ashok Khemka, a senior IAS officer and the man in charge of land registration in Haryana has cancelled the mutation of a land deal between Robert Vadra and DLF in Manesar. ...
10:18 PM, Oct 16, 2012
With Arvind Kejriwal promising another major expose on Wednesday, we ask, is he wild and unpredictable card in Indian politics or a trump? ...
09:57 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who has been transferred by the Haryana government, said he suspected that he was transferred for initiating probe into the land deal between Robert Vadra and realty major DLF. ...
09:36 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Reports say that Robert Vadra has purchased over 75 acres of land in Palwal area of Haryana's Faridabad district - 18 acres in his name and 57 acres through Real Estate Earth limited, a company where he is the director. ...
09:31 PM, Oct 16, 2012
The BJP has once again called for an impartial probe into the DLF-Vadra land deal in Haryana. BJP leader Prakash Javadekar has said that the transfer of the IAS officer Ashok Khemka reveals the Congress's emergency mindset. "The moment Vadra's matter came in public domain, Congress has been trying to save him. Instead of acting on Khemka's directions, the government acted against him and transferred him. At 10 pm, someone ...
01:45 PM, Oct 16, 2012
The Opposition has stepped up pressure for an independent inquiry into the land deal between Robert Vadra and DLF. Former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala has threatened to move court. "There is no question of a fair investigation under the Congress. The matter has to be taken to court for a fair trial. Khemka's revelations will be applauded. It is not possible for the CBI or the state government ...
01:39 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
