Haryana drops chargesheet against Khemka in Vadra land deal

Chandigarh: The BJP government in Haryana has dropped the chargesheet filed against whistleblower IAS officer Ashok Khemka for wrongly cancelling the mutation of land deal between Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra and real estate giant DLF. The then state government in December 2013 had issued chargesheet against Khemka after approval by the then chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Khemka was asked to reply the chargesheet within 15 days. The chargesheet was served to Khemka's minor son on December 4, 2013 as the bureaucrat was not at home that time. Khemka was transferred from the land consolidation department on October 11, 2012,but he left the charge on October 15 after cancelling the mutation of Vadra- DLF land deal. It was alleged in the chargesheet that he did not leave the charge for four days "intentionally" to cancel the mutation.