Haryana govt misleading court to protect Vadra, says Khemka

Ashok Khemka, the Haryana IAS officer who had cancelled a land mutation in Shikohpur village of Gurgaon — sold by Robert Vadra to DLF Ltd — has alleged that the Haryana government, in order to protect Mr. Vadra, is now misleading the Punjab and Haryana High Court which is looking into a case struck down by Khemka on similar grounds. One of the grounds under which Mr Khemka had set aside Mr Vadra’s mutation of the land deal was that the assistant consolidation officer (ACO) who had sanctioned the mutation was not competent to do so, as he does not have the powers of assistant collector of second grade, under the Punjab Land Revenue Act 1887.

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