Chandigarh:
Senior Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who is in the midst of a raging controversy after alleging irregularities in land deals involving businessman Robert Vadra, has received yet another threat call. The call, made to Mr Khemka's office, was received by a woman employee.
"The call was extremely obscene, vulgar and intimidating to my family members...the telephone attendant was shaken up...I forwarded call details to the police and filed a complaint," Mr Khemka told NDTV.
The Panchkula police has begun an enquiry into the matter following a First Information Report that was filed on Tuesday by a senior functionary of the Haryana Seed Development Corporation where Mr Khemka is currently posted.
Last month, the 1991-batch IAS officer had been controversially transferred out of the Consolidation of Land Holdings and Land Records-cum-Inspector General of Registration department to his present posting shortly after he initiated a probe into land dealings between Mr Vadra and realty giant DLF. Mr Vadra is the son-in-law of Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
The Congress-led Haryana government gave a "clean chit" to Mr Vadra days later following a probe.
Mr Khemka had allegedly received threat calls a fortnight earlier from unknown people. "He had told me that he has received some phone calls in which people had threatened him and asked him to stop his activities. The callers asked him to desist or else he would be eliminated," said Mr Khemka's friend and noted lawyer Anupam Gupta.
Asked if the latest threat call could be connected to Mr Vadra, the senior bureaucrat said that "it was hypothetical". "It maybe or maybe not. This is for investigation to show who was the caller and what was the motive behind this," Mr Khemka told NDTV.
In his letter to Chief Secretary PK Chaudhary, a day after his transfer on October 11, Mr Khemka wrote, "My family feels threatened due to certain vested elements whose interests were adversely affected by the exposure of scams in this department (last posting). I plead for security and fixed tenure in a cadre post befitting my seniority".
(With PTI inputs)
"The call was extremely obscene, vulgar and intimidating to my family members...the telephone attendant was shaken up...I forwarded call details to the police and filed a complaint," Mr Khemka told NDTV.
The Panchkula police has begun an enquiry into the matter following a First Information Report that was filed on Tuesday by a senior functionary of the Haryana Seed Development Corporation where Mr Khemka is currently posted.
Last month, the 1991-batch IAS officer had been controversially transferred out of the Consolidation of Land Holdings and Land Records-cum-Inspector General of Registration department to his present posting shortly after he initiated a probe into land dealings between Mr Vadra and realty giant DLF. Mr Vadra is the son-in-law of Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
The Congress-led Haryana government gave a "clean chit" to Mr Vadra days later following a probe.
Mr Khemka had allegedly received threat calls a fortnight earlier from unknown people. "He had told me that he has received some phone calls in which people had threatened him and asked him to stop his activities. The callers asked him to desist or else he would be eliminated," said Mr Khemka's friend and noted lawyer Anupam Gupta.
Asked if the latest threat call could be connected to Mr Vadra, the senior bureaucrat said that "it was hypothetical". "It maybe or maybe not. This is for investigation to show who was the caller and what was the motive behind this," Mr Khemka told NDTV.
In his letter to Chief Secretary PK Chaudhary, a day after his transfer on October 11, Mr Khemka wrote, "My family feels threatened due to certain vested elements whose interests were adversely affected by the exposure of scams in this department (last posting). I plead for security and fixed tenure in a cadre post befitting my seniority".
(With PTI inputs)
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