Haryana government's probe into my order encroaches on High Court powers: Ashok Khemka

NEW DELHI: Senior Haryana bureaucrat Ashok Khemka, who cancelled the mutations of the Manesar land owned by Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra, has said the state government's decision to set up a probe into his order encroached on the jurisdiction of the Punjab and Haryana high court.

"Some crooks in the government want to interfere by creating a committee to give it the face of a probe. Someone in the government wants to cover up and brush aside the orders I passed checking for undervaluation and cancelling the Robert Vadra-DLF mutation," Ashok Khemka alleged, while talking to a private television channel.

Legal experts have been backing the order issued by Khemka. According to lawyer Anupam Gupta, the '1975- Haryana legislation for Colonisation' of house building societies does not contemplate transfer of licences. "A licence is something to give you a broad analogy, affiliation. Education institutes seek affiliation from state, and subsequently you sell that, but that does not mean the affiliation goes to the purchaser."