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Many villagers were forced to sell about 400 acres of land to private builders at throwaway prices
The Enforcement Directorate has attached properties worth ₹281.42 crore of several accused persons and their associates in connection with the Gurugram land scam, in which a large number of villagers were forced to sell about 400 acres of land to private builders at throwaway prices.
The attached assets include 54% of a project in the name of Dove Infrastructure Private Limited pertaining to the main accused, Atul Bansal, and the ABWIL Group companies, worth ₹108.86 crore; and 50% of one “Business Bay Project” in the name of Seriatim Land and Housing Private Limited valued at ₹78.09 crore.
Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Robert Vadra, husband of Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, are also under the scanner in the case.
Gurugram land scandal: ED provisionally attaches properties worth Rs 281.42 crores
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Last Updated: Feb 19, 2021, 03:36 PM IST
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The agency had launched an investigation on the basis of an FIR registered in 2015 by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Chandigarh for the offences of criminal conspiracy, cheating etc. against unknown public servants of Haryana government and unknown private individuals.
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ED has further claimed that its probe revealed that the properties worth Rs. 281.42 Crores are proceeds of crime under PMLA.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached properties worth Rs. 281.42 Crores of various accused and their associates in connection with a land scandal in Gurugram.
December 14, 2020
Tightening its noose around Haryana former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and 32 others, the special CBI court has ordered framing of charges against the accused in the multi-crore Manesar land scam case.
They have been accused of corruption, criminal conspiracy and cheating in the said case by the CBI at its special court in Panchkula. The alleged scam pertains to purchase of land from the farmers at low prices and then releasing the same to big builders and colonisers for huge profits.
The two-time former chief minister Hooda, who is now the leader of opposition in Haryana vidhan sabha, has been facing the case along with others for allegedly benefiting private builders by allowing land acquisition proceedings in Gurugram villages, namely Manesar, Naurangpur and Lakhnoula areas in 2004, to lapse.