The one-man commission was set up by the BJP government to probe 250 land deals struck when the Congress was in power, including one involving Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
Even as justice (rtd) Shiv Narain Dhingra said he has indicted government officials and private individuals for colluding in illicit land deals in Haryana in his report submitted to the state government on Wednesday, the Congress challenged the government to make findings of the report public.
The one-man commission was set up by the BJP government to probe 250 land deals struck when the Congress was in power, including one involving Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi. The Congress on Wednesday challenged the government to make findings of the panel public. On June 30, Dhingra sought a last-minute extension to study additional evidence and documents about some "benami properties in Gurgaon area".
"I have brought the irregularities to light and people behind it," Dhingra said without naming Robert Vadra or then Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. He, however, refused to elaborate. Asked on Congress' allegations, he hinted that he has complied a 182 page report, meaning that there is lot of meat in his findings.
"If there were no irregularities in land allotment, I would have submitted a one-sentence, not a 182-page report," he said. He, however, refused to make contents public, but only said that the report is in two parts. "One part deals with findings while the second consists of evidences," he said. When asked why he did not call IAS officer Ashok Khemka for deposition, Justice Dhingra said it was not necessary. He further clarified that his mandate was to inquire about irregularities in granting licences.
The commission was asked to probe the grant of licences to Vadra's company and other firms for developing commercial properties in Gurgaon's Sector 83 and some other prime areas. Vadra had termed the inquiry commission as a "political witch-hunt" launched against him by the BJP government in Haryana. Though former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had been summoned, along with Vadra, by the commission, Hooda refused to join the probe and is demanding that the CBI investigate the controversial deals. Sources said that Justice Dhingra has found that Hooda acted "contrary to the law".
The controversy around Mr Vadra is based on a 3.5-acre plot in Gurgaon that he bought in 2008 for Rs 7.5 crore and sold just three months later for Rs 58 crore to India's largest real estate developer, DLF, which too has denied wrongdoing.
Meanwhile, Congress took exception to the leak of portions of report to the press and asked for making the full report public. Congress chief spokesperson Randip Singh Surjiwala said circumstances and facts clearly suggest that Dhinga Commission has been unable to find any iota of evidence. He said successive state governments have licenced 33,697.57 acres of land in Haryana. Out of this, Commission was asked to inquire into only 16 cases of commercial licences totaling a mere 63.40 acres in Sector-83, Gurgaon only because it included a licence measuring 2.7 acres owned by Skylight Hospitality Private Limited of Shri Robert Vadra. He even challenged Dhingra's integrity, claiming that he had accepted favours from the present BJP government of Haryana for Gopal Singh Charitable Trust headed by him, including expenditure of nearly Rs.1 crore from public exchequer in contravention of government norms.
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