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Gurugram: Three weeks after senior Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka questioned the slow probe into the Vadra-DLF land deal, mentioning Prime Minister Narendra Modis 2014 promise on the issue, Sanjeev Verma, another senior IAS officer, has written to Haryana Chief Secretary T.V.S.N..
Verma, a 2004-batch IAS officer who was promoted from the Haryana Civil Services, is the commissioner of the states Rohtak Division as well as managing director of the Haryana Women Development Corporation, while Khemka, a 1991-batch IAS officer, is additional chief secretary of the states printing and stationery department...
Khemka had in 2012, as director general of Haryanas land consolidation and holdings department, cancelled the mutation of a 3.5-acre land deal between Skylight Hospitality a company linked to former Congress chief Sonia Gandhis son-in-law Robert Vadra and the realty major DLF in Gurugrams Manesar-Shikohpur...
Verma, who was embroiled in a battle of tweets, complaints and FIRs with Khemka in 2022, wrote to the Haryana chief secretary Friday seeking action against Khemka for violation of the Model Code of Conduct, provoking electors and promoting feelings of enmity and hatred..
Reproducing Khemkas post on social media, Verma said the message had been put up at a time when the Election Commission of India had already announced the Lok Sabha elections, and polling was scheduled in Haryana on 25 May...