The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a money
laundering case against former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh
Hooda in connection with irregularities in the acquisition of land. The
case deals with financial irregularities in the acquisition of land in
Gurgaon’s Manesar, in which farmers were cheated to the tune of Rs 1,500
crore.
The ED has filed the case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act on the basis of an FIR filed by the CBI against Hooda and others. Following this, the CBI conducted searches in Haryana and Delhi last week.
Official sources said the ED would soon issue summons to those named in the case. Investigators have begun identifying the “proceeds of crime”, created illegally as a fallout of corruption in the case.
The CBI, had in last September, registered a case charging that private builders had hatched a conspiracy with Haryana government officials to purchase around 400 acres from farmers and land owners in Manesar, Naurangpur and Lakhnoula in Gurgaon district at throwaway prices after showing the threat of acquisition by the government.
According to the FIR, the state government had initially issued notifications for acquisition of land measuring about 912 acres for setting up an industrial model township. Following this, a large number of land owners sold their land in haste at throwaway prices, the FIR stated.
An order was passed by the government on August 24, 2007, releasing this land from the acquisition process in violation of the government policy and licences were issued to private builders.
The ED has filed the case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act on the basis of an FIR filed by the CBI against Hooda and others. Following this, the CBI conducted searches in Haryana and Delhi last week.
Official sources said the ED would soon issue summons to those named in the case. Investigators have begun identifying the “proceeds of crime”, created illegally as a fallout of corruption in the case.
The CBI, had in last September, registered a case charging that private builders had hatched a conspiracy with Haryana government officials to purchase around 400 acres from farmers and land owners in Manesar, Naurangpur and Lakhnoula in Gurgaon district at throwaway prices after showing the threat of acquisition by the government.
According to the FIR, the state government had initially issued notifications for acquisition of land measuring about 912 acres for setting up an industrial model township. Following this, a large number of land owners sold their land in haste at throwaway prices, the FIR stated.
An order was passed by the government on August 24, 2007, releasing this land from the acquisition process in violation of the government policy and licences were issued to private builders.
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