A day after the report of the Justice SN Dhingra Commission, constituted by the Haryana government to probe the controversial land deals in Gurugram indicted Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, of allegedly making unlawful gains of Rs 50 crore, Chief Minster ML Khattar said that action would soon be taken on its findings.
The BJP-led Haryana government had constituted the commission in May 2015 to probe the grant of licences to several real-estate companies in Gurugram during the term of former Congress CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Vadra’s Skylight Hospitality was also under the scanner.
The 182-page report was submitted to the Haryana CM last August, but was not made public due to the state government’s undertaking in the Punjab and Haryana High Court that it will not release the report until court orders. Hooda had challenged the constitutional validity of the panel and it remains pending.
A national daily had published details from the report, according to which Vadra made unlawful profits to the tune of Rs 50 crore in land deals with DLF in Gurugram. Citing sources familiar with the report, it said that there was collusion aimed at benefiting Vadra’s companies, which had bought over 20 properties in four villages of Gurugram in 2008.
According to sources, Vadra’s company, Skylight Hospitality, bought land from Onkareshwar Properties and sold it to DLF after Change of Land Use (CLU) while making a profit of around Rs 50 crore in 2008.
The controversial deal has also put Priyanka Gandhi in the dock. She also issued a statement distancing herself from the deal made by Vadra’s company.
Gandhi had purchased a 5-acre land in Faridabad, Haryana, during the period, and it is alleged that she had used the money received from her husband to purchase the land.
In a media statement, she dismissed all allegations that she had bought the land six years before the ‘controversial Skylight deal’ using rental income from the property inherited from her grandmother Indira Gandhi. “Funds for this or any other property acquired had no relationship with husband’s finances or Skylight Hospitality or DLF,” she said in her statement.
Her statement had also raised several question marks. Gandhi said that she had bought the land at Rs 3 lakh per acre at the prevailing collector rate in 2006 and resold it to the original vendor four years later at Rs 16 lakh per acre, which was the prevailing market rate. In four years, Gandhi turned from a buyer to a seller while making a whopping profit.
Vadra, too, purchased properties, but it was the land deal between Skyline and DLF which was primarily investigated upon. He purchased the land from Onkareshwar Properties and sold it to DLF and made a profit of Rs 50 crore.
At least 20 such properties bought by Vadra’s companies were probed by the Commission, which was set up after the Haryana CM took into account the CAG report of 2014.
Congress leader AK Singhvi blamed the government for allegedly leaking the commission report out of vendetta. Dismissing the allegations, Haryana CM said that the court should take cognizance of the matter.
“The court has not given permission to make the report public. There is no leak. If at all such a thing comes up, it will be matter of probe,\” he told media in Chandigarh.
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