In a relief to former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, the Punjab and Haryana High Court Thursday quashed the Dhingra Commission report into alleged illegalities in the grant of land-use licences during his term.
Among the alleged beneficiaries of the licences given in Gurgaon was Congress president Rahul Gandhi's brother-in-law Robert Vadra.
The two-judge bench ruled that though there was no malafide intent in setting up of the commission in 2015 but there were procedural irregularities in serving notice to Hooda by it.
While one of the judges quashed the report and directed that no action can be taken against Hooda, the other held it as "non est - not existing from the very beginning due to these lapses.
The report cannot be published, the court ruled
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