Robert Vadra: DLF- Haryana govt links alleged by Kejriwal sub-judice in SC

The Supreme Court had stayed the land acquisition quoted by India Against Corruption member Arvind Kejriwal to attack Robert Vadra. The question is if this makes Kejriwal’s accusations less factual. “It is not about what is applicable. The fact is that the High Court judges thought that the case is to say that the Haryana Government has shown favouritism and the opinion of those judges is valid and it is still a public domain document which we can accept. It is a matter that as you have said is still sub-judice but the opinion of the judge of Punjab and Haryana shows a clear collusion has been seen,” IAC member Preeti Menon said.

But lawyers say that a judgement is not final when it is stayed. “SC has granted a stay, which means that the judgement cannot be acted upon or given effect to, and it has not attained finality, it has to pass the test of the SC. At this point it would be wrong to rely on it because that is the purpose of a stay, it is out in abeyance, it is out on hold,” lawyer Gopal Jain said.

Meanwhile, the Haryana government has denied his allegations saying that it never favoured DLF. Kejriwal claimed a nexus between Vadra, DLF and the Congress-led Haryana government. Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation MD TC Gupta has said, “From the facts, it is clear that no land belonging to the government of Haryana development authority was either allotted or released in 2005 in favour of any private individual. This land belongs to East India Ltd, released more than 16 years back. 30 acres in 1995 was not handed over by the Haryana government, but by the East India hotels. There has been no handover of land by the Haryana government in the last 10 years.”