Chandigarh, Nov 4 (PTI): Haryana has dropped the charge sheet filed against bureaucrat Ashok Khemka in 2013 by the then Congress government for blocking a land deal that involved Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

Officials said Khemka, currently director-general of the archaeology and museums department, had replied to the charge sheet recently.

He had also been given a personal hearing by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, who formed the state’s first solo Bharatiya Janata Party government last October, ousting Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s Congress regime.

Khemka, an Indian Administrative Service officer of the 1991 batch, had been accused by the Hooda government of exceeding his brief by cancelling the mutation of a 2012 land deal between Skylight Hospitality, a firm owned by Vadra, and realty major DLF.

The officials said the decision to drop the charge sheet is being communicated to Khemka.

Khemka, who is said to have been transferred 45 times in his career for exposing corruption, initially tweeted: “No information from Government on decision in charge sheet issued on 4th Dec 2013. Media story is sweet music to my ears.”