Robert Vadra’s land deals in Haryana are in the news once again.
The
Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has hinted that Congress
president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Vadra was unduly favoured by the
previous Bhupinder Singh Hooda government in the state for striking the
land deals with realty giant DLF.
In
its report tabled in Haryana Assembly on Wednesday March 25,2015, the CAG said that
the Hooda government’s action caused loss to the government exchequer
and the possibility of extending favours to Vadra in connection with the
land deals cannot be ruled out.
“The
possibility of extending undue benefit to particular applicant (Vadra’s
company) cannot be ruled out,” the CAG report said.
The
CAG also questioned the “distinction” made by the Hooda government for
Vadra’s company Skylight Hospitality while granting permissions.
Pointing
out the irregularities, the CAG report said Skylight Hospitality sold a
prime 3.5-acre piece of land in Gurgaon district to DLF in 2008 for Rs
58 crore. The actual cost of the land was around Rs 15 crore.
Robert Vadra
sold the land to DLF after obtaining Change of Land Use (CLU) and other
permissions from the Congress government which was ruling Haryana then.
The irregularities in the land deal were found after the CAG ordered a
Performance Audit of various builders and reviewed various permission
granted by the then Haryana government.
CAG
has asked the state government to recover Rs 41.51 crore from Vadra’s
firm which had sold the land to DLF. The audit report pointed out that
Vadra earned Rs 43.66 crore from the deal by spending just Rs 7.5 crore,
and that too after six months of the controversial deal.
“As
per bilateral agreement referred ibid, the developer was required to
retain a profit of Rs 2.15 crore after developing the project but in the
instant case the firm earned a profit of Rs 43.66 crore by selling this
licence to DLF but had not deposited the profit i.e. `41.51 crore in
the government account,” says the report
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