Are you serious? Robert Vadra made Rs 44 cr thanks to DLF land deal, says CAG

There’s no end to the controversy surrounding Robert Vadra. Even as he faces flak over pushing away a journalist’s microphone, a new report claims that the Comptroller and Auditor General has pointed out that his company made a neat profit of Rs 44 crore in a land deal with DLF after inking a deal to share the profits with the then Congress state government. A Times of India report says that in a first draft of its report on land deals under the previous Congress government, the CAG has pointed out that the state government entered a bilateral deal with Vadra’s Skylight Hospitality to develop a commercial complex in Shikhopur, Gurgaon but lost Rs 41.5 crore in the process. The draft report notes that as per the agreement, the developer of the complex was supposed to retain a profit of only Rs 2.15 crore, but Vadra’s company, which sold off the property to DLF for Rs 58 crore, made a profit of Rs 43.66 crore. Vadra’s company is alleged to have spent Rs 14.3 crore for the purchase of land and conversion and other charges. [caption id=“attachment_1783719” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] PTI image[/caption] The purchase of land by Vadra’s company had earlier come under a cloud with bureaucrat Ashok Khemka cancelling the mutation of land for development of a commercial complex. While cancelling the mutation of the land deal between the two influential groups, Khemka had claimed in his order that Vadra had falsified documents for the 5.3 acres of plot of land Shiksohpur village of Gurgaon. Later, the Hooda government had constituted a three-member panel, headed by then principal secretary (revenue) Krishna Mohan to investigate Khemka’s charges. In its report, submitted in March 2013, the panel had not only given a clean chit to Vadra deal but also held that Khemka had acted beyond the authority by cancelling the mutation of land that was sold to DLF by Vadra’s company. The state government then reportedly reversed Khemka’s decision and sanctioned the land deal. However, ministers of the new BJP government have said that it would look into the land deals inked by the previous Bhupinder Singh Hooda government. Ministers Anil Vij and Captain Abhimanyu said that the new regime would order a thorough probe into the alleged land scams and not spare anyone, whether Vadra or Hooda. While the draft report had landed on the desk of the previous chief minister, the reply to the CAG’s report is expected to come from the Manohar Lal Khattar government and it may mean no immediate end to the woes of Robert Vadra.