ROHTAK: Today morning, by officials of the CBI in a land deal case Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda's home was reportedly raided. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is conducting raids at more than 30 places in Delhi and nearby areas in connection with the alleged land scam case. A team of officials from the agency reached Mr Hooda's home in Rohtak this morning.
While In 2016, Haryana's vigilance bureau first launched a probe into how the Haryana Urban Development Authority under Mr Hooda had allotted land to the Associated Journals, the group that owned Congress-linked National Herald newspaper. In December last year, the CBI had filed a charge sheet against Hooda in connection with re-allotment of institution plot to AJL in Haryana's Panchkula in 2005. It is alleged that the 14 industrial plots in Panchkula, ranging from 496 square metres to 1,280 square metres, were allotted at throwaway prices after changes were made in the eligibility criteria during Hooda's tenure as the CM.
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In case of detail, The CBI which took over the case says that the re-allotment of this land in Panchkula when nothing had been built in 2005 is illegal. The original allotment was in 1982 and it was taken away in 1996 when there was a failure to build on it. The re-allotment happened under Mr Hooda which is why he and other officials have been charged with cheating and corruption.
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