Haryana govt probe into Vadra case is a cover-up: Khemka

After maintaining  a brief silence over the probe he launched into a plot of land acquired by a Robert Vadra-owned company, IAS officer Ashok Khemka has said the three-member committee formed by the Haryana government was in violation of a high court order. “Some crooks in the government want to interfere by creating a committee to give it the face of a probe. Someone in the government wants to cover up and brush aside the orders I passed checking for undervaluation and cancelling the Robert Vadra-DLF mutation,” Khemka told CNN IBN. [caption id=“attachment_500301” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Khemka has also alleged that he received death threats. PTI[/caption] According to Khemka, the IAS officials do not have the jurisdiction to probe the orders that were passed by him and was merely a cover up. “Jurisdiction of the High Court is being encroached upon and usurped by creating this committee. Topmost statutory authorities in Haryana are inspector general of registration and director general land consolidation. The only recourse is to move the courts. They are not doing that, but forming a committee. IAS officers have no jurisdiction to probe orders passed by the DG Consolidation,” he said. The IAS official also denied that he was speaking against government policy and was merely talking about tackling corruption. “I haven’t spoken against government policy. I have spoken against corruption, nepotism and crony capitalism which is not government policy,” Khemka said. The IAS official was transferred after he initiated a probe into the conversion of the use of a plot of land that had been acquired by a Robert Vadra-owned company that was sold to DLF. He had said the probe had been initiated following the allegations of corruption levelled by activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal into land purchases made by Vadra-owned real estate firms.