Former Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda booked by ED for alleged money laundering
The vigilance Bureau had registered a case of cheating and corruption against Hooda and four officials for allegedly re-alloting a plot to AJL in Panchkula in 2005 when he was the Chief Minister.
Hooda, however, alleged that the move against him was a "political vendetta", claiming that there was no wrong doing.
The vigilance case was registered under various IPC sections, including criminal breach of trust by a public servant, cheating, criminal conspiracy and under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The Vigilance Bureau had alleged that the act by the then Haryana Urban Development Authority chairman and the officials had caused a huge financial loss to HUDA as the plot should have been sold through open auction instead of being alloted again to AJL.
A separate FIR had been lodged in December last year by the state vigilance bureau against Hooda as the then chairman and chief administrator of HUDA for alleged irregularities in allotment of industrial plots in Panchkula three years ago.Hooda had then said that no rules had been violated in the allotment.
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