Unhappy acres

A towering crescendo of outrage had brought a hasty look-in. Then came reports that four district collectors in Haryana—of Gurgaon, Faridabad, Palwal and Mewat—had given a clean chit to the land deals struck with DLF since 2005 by Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. But it appears these officials, who report to a committee of three headed by a senior state bureaucrat, gave a clean chit to only the value of the deals. In fact, officials privy to the details told Outlook that they feel a series of permissions, mutations...

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