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Law will take its own course: Haryana CM on Vadra land deals NEW DELHI :  The comptroller and auditor general has faulted Robert Vadra’s land deals in Haryana, saying he reaped nearly Rs 44 crore in windfall gains because an indulgent Congress government allowed him to do so in breach of law, and did not insist on recovering Rs 41.51 crore of the profit he made by quickly selling the land to DLF Universal. In its first draft report on land deals in Haryana under the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government, the auditor has said that Vadra’s Skylight Hospitality Private Limited was allowed to develop a commercial colony when it had just Rs 1 lakh in its kitty. “The department (of town and country planning) ignored the aspect of the financial capacity of the colonizer,” said the report. The land was soon sold to DLF Universal for Rs 58 crore, with Skylight Hospitality making a neat profit of Rs 43.66 crore. The CAG draft report underlines that the bilateral agreement between the ...