<p>Haryana’s whistleblower IAS officer Ashok Khemka has accused the state government of victimising him and sitting over his performance appraisal report for the period 2012-2013, the time he acted against land scams and cancelled mutation of the land deal between Robert Vadra and DLF.<br /><br />In a letter to Haryana Chief Secretary S C Choudhary, Khemka, who had in March sought a central deputation, said the Centre had not included his name in the offer list because of ‘missing Performance Appraisal Reports (PARs)’ for the years 2011-12 and 2012-13 and absence of Vigilance clearance by the state government. <br /><br />“It has come to my knowledge in an application made under RTI Act that my PAR for the period – 01.04.2012 to 15.10.2012, has not been appraised,” the 1991-batch officer, currently holding the post of Secretary, Haryana Government, Department of Archives, said in the letter Friday.</p>.<p>“This omission seems to be deliberate to victimise me because the reporting period coincided with actions taken by me against several land scams, including a massive corruption combining land-licensing and land-releases forcing landowner-farmers to undertake distress sale of their farmlands to the builder mafia,” he alleged.<br /><br />Khemka, who had hit the headlines for cancelling mutation of Vadra’s land deal with realty giant DLF in Gurgaon in October 2012, said, “Two quasi-judicial orders made on October 12 and October 15, 2012 concerned companies of a VVIP. Why should I be penalised for wilful omission of the accepting authority to perform his duties to appraise my PAR”.<br /><br />“Several letters were written to your office in this regard, but all were arbitrarily dumped. I should not be victimised further,” Khema, who has faced over 40 transfers in his career, said. <br /><br />The IAS officer also alleged that there is “tremendous witch-hunting and hounding after October 15, 2012 with full political patronage of the present ruling party at the state and the Centre”.<br /><br />Asked about the letter, the Chief Secretary told PTI that it had been written to him only on Thursday and “(after going through it) I will have the matter looked into”.<br /><br />In 2013 the state government had charge sheeted Khemka for “wrongly” cancelling mutation of the deal.<br /></p>
<p>Haryana’s whistleblower IAS officer Ashok Khemka has accused the state government of victimising him and sitting over his performance appraisal report for the period 2012-2013, the time he acted against land scams and cancelled mutation of the land deal between Robert Vadra and DLF.<br /><br />In a letter to Haryana Chief Secretary S C Choudhary, Khemka, who had in March sought a central deputation, said the Centre had not included his name in the offer list because of ‘missing Performance Appraisal Reports (PARs)’ for the years 2011-12 and 2012-13 and absence of Vigilance clearance by the state government. <br /><br />“It has come to my knowledge in an application made under RTI Act that my PAR for the period – 01.04.2012 to 15.10.2012, has not been appraised,” the 1991-batch officer, currently holding the post of Secretary, Haryana Government, Department of Archives, said in the letter Friday.</p>.<p>“This omission seems to be deliberate to victimise me because the reporting period coincided with actions taken by me against several land scams, including a massive corruption combining land-licensing and land-releases forcing landowner-farmers to undertake distress sale of their farmlands to the builder mafia,” he alleged.<br /><br />Khemka, who had hit the headlines for cancelling mutation of Vadra’s land deal with realty giant DLF in Gurgaon in October 2012, said, “Two quasi-judicial orders made on October 12 and October 15, 2012 concerned companies of a VVIP. Why should I be penalised for wilful omission of the accepting authority to perform his duties to appraise my PAR”.<br /><br />“Several letters were written to your office in this regard, but all were arbitrarily dumped. I should not be victimised further,” Khema, who has faced over 40 transfers in his career, said. <br /><br />The IAS officer also alleged that there is “tremendous witch-hunting and hounding after October 15, 2012 with full political patronage of the present ruling party at the state and the Centre”.<br /><br />Asked about the letter, the Chief Secretary told PTI that it had been written to him only on Thursday and “(after going through it) I will have the matter looked into”.<br /><br />In 2013 the state government had charge sheeted Khemka for “wrongly” cancelling mutation of the deal.<br /></p>
