The probe against Vadra is linked to a land deal in Haryana’s Manesar-Shikohpur (now sector 83) in Gurugram.The land deal of February 2008 was done by a company named Skylight Hospitality Pvt Ltd, where Vadra was a director earlier, as it purchased a 3.5 acre land in Shikohpur from a firm named Onkareshwar Properties at a price of Rs 7.5 crore.A Congress government led by chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was in power that time.Four years later, in September, 2012, the company sold this 3. 53 acre land to realty major DLF for Rs 58 crore.The land deal got into controversy in October, 2012 after IAS officer Ashok Khemka, then posted as the director general of Land Consolidation and Land Records-cum- Inspector-General of Registration of Haryana, cancelled the mutation of this categorising the transaction as violative of state consolidation Act and some related procedures.The opposition Haryana BJP then had called this case an instance of “corruption” in land deals and that of “nepotism” hinting at Vadra’s kinship with the first family of the Congress party.Haryana Police had filed an FIR to probe this deal in 2018.Vadra has been questioned multiple times by the federal probe agency in two different money laundering cases earlier.
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