Panchkula land scam: Bhupinder Hooda, 21 others named in ED chargesheet

New Delhi, Feb 16: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a chargesheet against former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and 21 others in the Panchkula Industrial Plot Allotment Scam.

The scam involves 14 industrial plots worth Rs 30.34 crore to the acquaintances of the then Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in 2013.

In its chargesheet, the ED has named Hooda, four retired IAS officers - Dharam Pal Singh Nagal (then Chief Administrator, HUDA), Surjit Singh (then Administrator, HUDA), Subhash Chandra Kansal (then Chief Controller of Finance, HUDA), Narinder Kumar Solanki (then Zonal Administrator, Faridabad Zone, HUDA).

The 14 plots, ranging from 496 square metres to 1,280 square metres, were allegedly allotted at throwaway prices after changes were made midway in the eligibility criteria

Those allotted the industrial plots included Renu Hooda, Manjot Kaur, Nandita Hooda, Mona Beri, Pardeep Kumar, KPS Sandhu, Dagar Katyal, Ganesh Dutt Ratan, Aman Gupta, Lt Col (retd) O P Dahiya, Sidharth Bhardwaj, Ashok Verma, Anupam Sood and Sachin Sood

All of them were related to politicians, bureaucrats and other influential people which included the then chief minister, CBI sources said

The case was registered under various sections of IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act.