The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday raided Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda of the Congress Party in connection with an alleged scam involving land allotment case registered in 2015 in Manesar. A CBI team arrived at Mr Hooda’s home in Haryana’s Rohtak this morning.
CBI raids in 20 locations across Delhi, Chandigarh, Rohtak and Gurugram. In Link with the case, the CBI has reportedly also searched the homes and offices of a top bureaucrat, SS Dhillon, and two former officers ML Tayal and Chattar Singh.
When Hooda was the chief minister, he allocated the land to Associated Journal Ltd in Panchkula under wrong terms. For this land allocation, the loss of the state government revenue ran into crores. Hooda is already under CBI scanner for alleged irregularities in the allocation of industrial plots when he was chairman of Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA).
It is alleged that the 14 plots, ranging from 496 sq.m, were allegedly allotted at throwaway prices. Those allotted the plots included Renu Hooda, Manjot Kaur, Nandita Hooda among others and all of them were related to politicians, bureaucrats and other influential people which included Hooda.
He has reportedly also been indicted for his alleged role in facilitating illegal land deals in a report by a former judge who studied controversial transactions in Haryana including one involving Robert Vadra, whose mother-in-law, Sonia Gandhi, heads the Congress. The investigation was ordered by ML Khattar, who took over as Chief Minister of a BJP government after Mr Hooda’s defeat.
