Ashok Khemka has been promoted to the rank of Principal Secretary

January 01, 2016 15:00

As a New Year gift to whistleblower IAS officer Ashok Khemka, the Khattar government has promoted the bureaucrat to the post of principal secretary from secretary to the government of Haryana.

A departmental promotion committee headed by chief secretary DS Dhesi took a decision on Thursday in this connection, say sources.

Khemka had made headlines in 2012 when acting as director general of Haryana land consolidation department, he had cancelled the mutation of land deal between UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra and DLF on the ground that the assistant consolidation officer, who had sanctioned the change of title in the revenue record in favour of DLF, was not competent to do so.

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