The particular CBI court docket in Panchkula on Friday framed expenses in opposition to former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in a case of plot re-allotment to Associated Journals Limited (AJL) in Sector 6. The expenses had been framed below Sections 420 and 120-B of Indian Penal Code and below Section 13 of Prevention of Corruption Act.
Hooda had filed an software within the court docket searching for discharge from the case, however the CBI court docket rejected the plea right here immediately. The case will now come up for listening to on May 7.
Besides Hooda, senior Congress chief Moti Lal Vora too was named as an accused within the case.
The case pertains to allotment of an institutional plot quantity C-17 in Sector 6, Panchkula. It was allotted by Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) to the AJL in 1982, however as a result of the development was not carried out in 10 years, it was taken again in 1992.
In 1995 and in 1996, appeals and revisions had been filed by the AJL in opposition to resumption of plot however these had been additionally dismissed by the HUDA administrator and Haryana’s monetary commissioner for city and nation planning. However, when Hooda grew to become the chief minister in 2005, he re-allotment the plot to the AJL.
The Enforcement Directorate, that too had been probing the case, had mentioned that Hooda, the then CM who was additionally holding the cost of Haryana Urban Development Authority’s chairman, “blatantly misused his official position and dishonestly allotted the said plot afresh in the guise of re-allotment to the AJL at original rates plus interest in violation of the rules, causing loss to HUDA and wrongful gain to AJL”
