New Delhi. The troubles of former Haryana Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Bhupendra Singh Hooda are going to increase. The court has ordered to prosecute him in the Manesar land scam case. Punjab-Haryana High Court rejected the petition of Bhupendra Singh Hooda in which he had argued that the Supreme Court has stayed the trial against other accused in this case, hence it is unfair to conduct the trial only against him. CBI has already filed a charge sheet against Hooda in this case.
After the petition has been rejected by the Punjab and Haryana High Court, now charges will be framed against former CM Hooda in the special CBI court of Panchkula. After this the trial will go on in the court. CBI has alleged in the charge sheet that in 2007, when Bhupendra Singh Hooda was the Chief Minister of Haryana, his government had freed 400 acres of land from acquisition. The builders had purchased 400 acres of land from the farmers at throwaway prices due to which the farmers had to suffer financial loss. It was estimated that farmers had suffered a loss of about Rs 1500 crore at that time.
The Supreme Court had ordered a CBI investigation into this entire matter. The court had said that the Hooda government’s decision to cancel the acquisition process was malicious. The Supreme Court had ordered the CBI to investigate the undue profits earned by middlemen in the purchase and sale of land and directed the state government to recover the money. CBI started investigating this case in the year 2015. After almost three years of intensive investigation, CBI had filed an 80-page charge sheet in September 2018 against 34 accused including Bhupendra Singh Hooda.
