Vadra deal: Missing notes will be traced soon, says Khattar

The state government made this admission before the State Information Commission, while replying to an RTI application filed by senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka.

After meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday evening, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar told reporters, “The state government has a duplicate file and shall trace the missing papers from there. Those found guilty of stealing the papers would not be spared.”

A senior government official said: “We are quite hopeful to retrieve the missing papers. The same set of two papers, which have now gone missing, were supplied under the Right to Information Act to somebody a few months ago. We are trying to establish contact with the person so that we could get a copy of those papers from him.”

Khemka has now shot off a strong-worded letter to Haryana Chief Secretary P K Gupt and demanded registration of a criminal case against three senior IAS officers who were posted in the Chief Minister’s Office during Hooda’s regime.

Speaking to The Indian Express, P K Gupta said, “We are investigating into the matter to ascertain if there was any malafide intention on anybody’s part. “

Congress, however, has dismissed as “non-issue” the disappearance of key pages. “Political parties and persons raising the issue must tell as to what is its impact on merits? It is in public domain that a committee headed by three senior most IAS officers was appointed to examine the issues raised by Khemka.  They submitted a comprehensive report rejecting the contentions,” Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said reacting to The Indian Express report on the disappearance of the pages.