gurgaon the state governments affidavit this week before the punjab haryana high court that stated no violations had been found in a 2012 land deal between robert vadras skylight hospitality and real estate major dlf which raised a political storm before the 2014 general elections in which bjp swept to office is not a clean chit senior government and police functionaries insisted on fridaythey argued that the comment in the affidavit was limited to transactional aspects of the deal like payment on stamp duty and not the process that led to the inflated pricing of the land that vadras company soldharyana home minister anil vij said on friday reports describing the affidavit as a clean chit were misplaced and emphasised that the government had also communicated that a further investigation under a reconstituted sit formed just last month was under way the committee that was formed to investigate the matter has not produced any such report that gives a clean chit to all those who are accused in the case the investigation is ongoing vij who was in the city for a meeting on law and order saidthe affidavit submitted by the state government to the court on april 19 was based on the manesar tehsildars report which did not find any violation of rules in the transfer of 35 acres of land by skylight hospitality to dlf in september 2012 the affidavit itself wasnt on this land deal but pertained to pending cases against mps and mlasthe fir was filed at kherki daula police station on september 1 2018 against vadra former cm and congress leader bhupinder singh hooda dlf and omkareshwar properties under sections 120b conspiracy 420 cheating 467 468 and 471 forgery of the ipc and section 13 of the prevention of corruption act on the basis of a complaint filed by surendra sharma a resident of nuh who describes himself as a social activist sharma alleged irregularities in the transfer of land subsequently an sit was set up in 2022 some members of the sit changed now it has been reconstituted again and is led by dcp virender vij two acps an inspector asi and an official each from the town and country planning department and haryanarera the previous sit formed last year was headed by an acprank officer a haryana police spokesperson said on friday the affidavit in court had been misconstrued as a clean chit the report of the manesar tehsildar has been misconstrued a new sit was reconstituted last month to give fresh impetus to the investigation the spokesperson said police said the sit is gathering relevant documents and examining a number of individuals connected with the case and officials from departments specialising in real estate had been inducted for their insightsthe case dates back to 2008 when vadras company bought the 35 acre land at shikohpur in manesar for rs 75 crore from onkareshwar properties soon after it was given permission by the then hooda government to develop a housing project