HC asks Haryana govt to cancel allocation of 350 acres to DLF
Moneylife Digital Team 03 September 2014
While asking Haryana to cancel the allocation, the High Court had directed the Congress government to invite fresh bids for the 350-acre property  
 
The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday asked Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led Haryana government to cancel allocation of 350 acres of land at Wazirabad in Gurgaon to DLF.
 
The assignment of 350 acres of prime property in the Wazirabad had been challenged by villagers who claim they were told that the government was acquiring their land for a recreational park.
 
Hooda-led Congress government in Haryana has been accused of allowing several land deals between DLF and Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.
 
The High Court also asked the state government to invite fresh bids for the property. 
 
The government's consultants valued the land at about Rs1,683 crore. When only DLF was deemed eligible by a government committee, its bid of Rs1,703 crore was accepted - that was just Rs20 crore more than the reserve price, so the government appears to have accepted a poor offer.
 
Dr Ashok Khemka, a senior bureaucrat in Haryana who handled land records in an earlier posting has alleged that the Hooda administration allowed Vadra to strike illicit land deals in Gurgaon.
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