Gurugram Commissioner of Police KK Rao on Friday said the Haryana Government has given permission to further investigate the alleged land scam case registered against Robert Vadra, brother-in-law of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and others.
“We had sought permission from the State Government after the case was registered at a Gurugram police station. The authorities have given a go-ahead to investigate the alleged scam,” said KK Rao Commissioner of Police.
The district police registered the case against Vadra, Hooda and others on September 1 at Kherki Daula police station.
Police had booked Vadra, Hooda, DLF and Gurugram-based Onkareshwar properties for their alleged involvement in a land scam worth Rs 5,000 crore in Gurugram in 2008.
The case was registered on the complaint of Surender Sharma, a resident of Tauru, alleging that a company belonging to Vadra’s Skylight Hospitality had cheated people and the government.
Vadra’s company Skylight Hospitality Pvt Ltd purchased 3.5 acres of land in Gurugram’s Sector 83 from Onkareshwar Properties for Rs 7.50 crore in 2008, and later sold it to DLF for Rs 58 crore.
The Haryana government then allotted 350 acres of land to DLF in violation of rules.
After the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in Haryana, it set up a one-man commission of Justice SN Dhingra on May 14, 2015, to probe the land scam.
The commission probed the alleged irregularities in the grant of licence by the Haryana Department of Town and Country Planning to some companies, including those of Robert Vadra, son-in-law of then Congress President Sonia Gandhi, in Sector 83 of Gurugram for developing commercial colonies.
Deals were allegedly inked for land in Shikohpur, Sihi, Kherki Daula and Sikanderpur Badha villages in Gurugram.
A case was registered under sections of 420(cheating), 120B (hatching conspiracy), 467 (forger), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and Section 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, at the Kherki Daula Police Station.