Former Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda
NEW DELHI: : In a Gurgaon land grab and money laundering case worth over Rs 1,500 crore, the ED on Tuesday attached properties worth over Rs 281 crore. The total attachment in the case, in which former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda is one of the accused, has crossed Rs 390 crore.
Three chargesheets have also been filed in the case so far. The land scam in Manesar, Gurgaon is related to an acquisition order issued by the Haryana government in 2005 when Hooda was CM. The notification was issued for acquisition of 912 acres for setting up a model industrial township in Manesar and villages in Gurgaon. “A large number of land owners, in haste, had to sell about 400 acres at throwaway price to private builders and thereby caused a wrongful loss of Rs 1,500 crore to the land owners,” an ED official said. It claimed the land was later “freed from compulsory acquisition by the state government as a result of conspiracy by politicians, bureaucrats and private builders”.