New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a case against the 22 accused under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) in the Panchkula Industrial Plot Allotment Scam. It is alleged that in 2013, 14 industrial plots were wrongly allotted to acquaintances of the then CM Bhupendra Singh Hooda for Rs 30.34 crore.

Along with this, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a charge sheet against former Haryana CM Bhupendra Hooda and 21 others in the Panchkula land scam case. The charge sheet consists of four retired IAS officers. The ED started the investigation in 2015 on the basis of an FIR lodged by the Haryana Vigilance Bureau. The FIR was later transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in 2016. CBI had registered a case under 120-B, 201, 204, 409, 420, 467, 468, 471, 13 under Prevention of Corruption Act.

The investigation revealed that Bhupinder Singh Hooda, the ex-officio chairman of Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), and four retired IAS officers had illegally allotted the plots. The names of these four retired officers are Dharampal Singh Nagal (former Chief Administrator, HUDA), Surjit Singh (Former Administrator, HUDA), Subhash Chandra Kansal (Former Chief Financial Controller of HUDA), and Narendra Singh Solanki (Former Zonal of HUDA, Faridabad Administrator).

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