Ashok Khemka, IAS officer who marked Robert Vadra Land Deal, is retiring to 57 transfers today. All you need to know | Today news

Senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Ashok Khemka, who has been transferred 57 times, is stepping out today after a 34 -year career. The 1991 officer will retire as additional general secretary of the Department of Transport, where he has been posted since December 2024. The Haryana Cadre Ias officer shot in 2012 when he first marked the alleged irregularities in the land agreement between congressional leader Priyanka Gandhi’s husband Robert Vadra’s Skylight Hospitality and DLF Universal Ltd, the investigation in the case. alleged irregularities in the land agreement. On April 15, Vadra appeared before the Maintenance Directorate (ED) on alleged irregularities in his company’s land agreement in 2007-08. The land agreement elicited a row of Khemka, subsequently placed as director -general, Consolidation of Holdings, on October 15, 2012, set aside the mutation (number 4513) of Sky Light’s 3.53 hectare. A mutation is part of the process of transferring ownership of a piece of land. A report in the Hindustan Times said Khemka’s order to set aside the mutation was never worked out by the Gurugram Revenue Administration. Who is Ashok Khemka? Khemka, who was born in Kolkata on April 30, 1965, earned a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering to IIT Kharagpur in 1988. He then completed a PhD in Computer Science at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and an MBA specializing in operating administration and finance. While employed, he also completed his LLB at Punjab University, the news agency Pti said. Khemka, who cracked the IAS in 1991, is usually called an honest upright officer. But during his career, he faced 57 transfers, probably the highest among the state bureaucracy. Last December, Khemka returned to the transport department of Haryana, which is currently led by Minister Anil Vij in the Nayab Saini -led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government. ‘The price of honesty is humiliation’ ‘is transferred again. The same thing again. Constitution Day was celebrated yesterday. Today, the orders and rules of the Supreme Court were again violated. Some will be glad. After all, I was pushed to the final angle. The price of honesty is humiliation, ‘Khemka said in a post on X in Hindi on November 26, 2019, when he was passed 53rd time. Khemka at the time general secretary, Science and Technology in Haryana, was moved in the same rank to the archives, archives and museums division. Interestingly, Khemka completed his 33-year-old Seven-month bureaucratic service on April 30, Wednesday, his birthday. He turns 60 today. Khemka, who is known for his crusade against corruption, worked during the tenure of seven main ministers of Haryana. This is to Prakash Chautala, Bhajan Lal, Bansi Lal, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Manohar Lal Khattar, and Nayab Singh Saini, the current one. Khemka had a corruption corruption, and constantly emphasized alleged irregularities that came to his notice wherever he was placed, usually less important departments, since he produced the Vadra DLF land agreement in 2012. In 2023, Khemka wrote and offered the then Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar to perform a wheat ‘with a struggle in vigilance. He said he sacrificed his service career in his zeal to end corruption. “Lopsided distribution of work does not serve public interest,” he wrote. He was transferred on average every six months over his entire career, the news agency Pti said. He was posted for the fourth time at the archive department three of these stints during the tenure of the BJP-led government. I sacrificed my service career in my zeal to end corruption. He previously served as the Director General and later the general secretary of the Archives Division. He was first transferred to the department in 2013 when the congress part was in power in Haryana. (With Pti inputs) first published: 30 Apr 2025, 08:03 AM IST