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Dhingra panel report ‘indicts’ Robert Vadra; Congress calls it political vendetta

Rovert and Priyanka Gandhi VadraNew Delhi, April 28

The Congress on Friday accused the BJP governments at the Centre and in Haryana of “deliberately” leaking Justice SN Dhingra Commission’s report to “damn” Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra out of vendetta, hours a news report claimed that he had made an unlawful gain of Rs 50 crore from a 2008 land deal with the previous Haryana government.

The Congress said the Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued injunction twice — in November last year and earlier this week — restraining release of the content of the report of the commission that probed alleged irregularities in grant of land licences to a firm owned by Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.

Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi alleged that the BJP-led governments were in the habit of deliberately leaking reports, as the party believed in the politics of vendetta.

“Some very strange things are happening. Both the central and the state governments and the ruling party are steeped in vendetta and blinded by rage and are deliberately leaking the so-called Dhingra Commission report,” he told reporters.

Singhvi came out in the defence for Vadra a day after Priyanka Gandhi Vadra issued a statement, saying her finances had nothing to do with that of her husband Robert Vadra or his company Skylight Hospitality, which is under the scanner of the Haryana government over its land deals with realty major DLF.

Singhvi also voiced his surprise at Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu’s remark that their government did not leak the report, and said that it left either Justice Dhingra or Vadra himself.

“Who are making these selective, opportunistic, planted and directed leaks for what is known as damnation by innuendo and insinuation,” he said, adding that although law required notices to be issued to either Vadra or former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda of the Congress, during whose tenure these land deals took place, before the contents of the report were made public.
“Can you have a report to say Vadra did this and that or the other without a notice to him?” he asked.

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar denied the Congress’s allegations, but promised to take action when the report is made public.

Once the report is made public and something comes out, it will be a matter of investigation,” the chief minister said.

Khattar’s government instituted the commission in 2015 to investigate irregularities in the previous state government’s procedure to grant licences for development of colonies, housing societies and commercial complexes in four Guragon villages.

Vadra’s Skylight Hospitality is among being investigated. daily published a news report with details of the commission’s findings on Friday. Citing people familiar with the commission’s findings, the report said Robert Vadra made an “illegal profit” of over Rs 50 crore from a 2008 land deal without investing a penny and cited the sources as saying that “there was collusion aimed at benefiting Vadra’s company”.

The report said the committee had probed transactions between Onkareshwar Properties and Vadra-owned Skylight Hospitality and subsequently between Skylight and developer DLF.

The Dhingra Commission investigated over 20 properties said to have been purchased by Vadra and his companies, said the paper.

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