ED files case of money laundering against Hooda.
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| Bhupinder Singh Hooda, former chief Minister Haryana |
On May 5, the state vigilance bureau registered a case of cheating and corruption against Hooda and four officials in HUDA for allegedly re-alloting the plot to AJL.
THE Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a case of money-laundering against Congress leader and former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and others on the allotment of a plot in Panchkula to Associate Journals Limited (AJL), the publisher of The National Herald newspaper.
Apart from Hooda, officials of AJL, the publisher of The National Herald, and other individuals allegedly linked to the allotment have been named in the Enforcement Case Investigation Report (ECIR), which is similar to an FIR.
The ED case is based on an FIR filed on the allotment by the Haryana State Vigilance Bureau in May.
The Indian Express was the first to report — in December 2015 — on alleged irregularities in the allotment of the 3,360-sq-m plot in Sector 6, Panchkula, to AJL. The plot was allotted by the previous Hooda-led Congress government six months after it came to power in Haryana in 2005.
According to ED sources, as ex-officio chairman of the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) at the time, Hooda caused a loss of Rs 65 lakh to the exchequer by granting the land to AJL in alleged contravention of rules and against the advice of government officials.
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