Indian National lok Dal, the main Opposition party of Haryana has now targeted Vinod Sharma, MlA Ambala City and a close aid of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in the multi-crore land deal scam which is getting murkier day by day.
The Opposition has now sharpened their voice against Sharma after Robert Vadra, son-in-law of the Congress President Sonia Gandhi decorated many a headlines in leading National dailies for a said land deal scam between his company and real estate giant DlF.
It is being alleged that the State Government under Bhupinder Singh Hooda provided sham licenses to three companies out of which two were owned by close relatives and aids of Vinod Sharma, assisting these company to siphon crore of rupees from the tax payers pocket.
Abhay Chautala, MlA from Ellenabad said, “Robert Vadra is a small fry in the multi-crore land deal scam which took place in the State. These scams took place with the connivance of the Chief Minister and officials of Town And Country Planning Department.”
Chautala has accused Hooda of providing huge benefit to Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law and his close relatives, overlooking the law of the land, by setting up Benami companies. He has demanded a high level judicial probe by a sitting Supreme Court or High Court judge into all the land deals that took place in the State during Hooda’s tenure as the Chief Minister.
Son of former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala added that, Hooda’s nephew Sandeep Dahiya, Satyanand Yaji and Popet are the directors of Onkeshwar Company, which sold lands to the company floated by Robert Vadra in Sikohpur village of Gurgaon district. Moreover, Vinod Sharma also took part in these land deals in which Vadra submitted fake cheque of Rs 7.5 crores. It is being alleged that State government granted the license of 26.09 acres to Onkeshwar Properties on the name of Vatika Company within two months of DlF-Vadra deal, thus providing a benefit of whooping Rs 500 crore to the company.
Abhay Chautala said that the company, which generated Rs 20 crore in few days, had earned Rs 85 crore in 2011 and now this company has earned a cash amount of Rs 71 crore, bank deposits of Rs 136 crore and it has also given loans of Rs 56 crore to several other companies.
Besides Vadra’s, another company Mark Build Tech, in which Vinod Sharma’s close relatives and friends have been appointed as directors had also earned huge profit through fraudulent deals. This company had earned Rs 600 crore by getting two licenses of 28.49 acres in Sihi, Sikohpur and Sikandarpur Bada of Gurgaon.
Mark Build Tech was being operated by Tarun Bhanot, a close relative of Vinod Sharma’s wife. Sharma’s close aid Harvinder Chopra and Dhirender Dadwal are also working as directors of this company. Moreover, both Bhanot’s brother and Dadwal are working as director of Vinod Sharma’s another Company lakshya Build Tech which earned Rs 200 crore by getting license of another 10.38 acres land in Gurgaon.
Onkeshwar Properties invested in Vinod Sharma’s son Kartikey Sharma’s companies namely Good Morning India Pvt ltd and Information TV Pvt ltd an amount of Rs 3 crore in 2009 and Rs 25 crore in 2010. They disclosed that official address of all these three companies including Onkeshwar Properties, Mark Build Tech, lakshya Build Tech remained same from 2008 to 2011 added Abhay Chautala.
These companies were later shifted to residence of Satyanand Yaji. It is being alleged that chief minister had provided a benefit of Rs 1300 crore to these companies within two months. The INlD leader has assured all his support to Ashok Khemka if the state government harasses him in the future.
However, Vinod Sharma who has been alleged by the opposition MlA, refuted all these claims and said, “All the allegations leveled against me are false and baseless. But I am not going to initiate any legal battle as everyone is free to express their personal opinion and I don’t have time to react to such blatant remarks.”