Special CBI court exempts 3 more accused in Manesar land scam case
Bhupinder Singh Hooda
and 31 other accused, including former bureaucrats and private builders.
The case came up for hearing on Thursday. As per a copy of the order accessed by TOI on Saturday, three more persons against whom the arguments on framing of charges shall not be initiated include Dhare Singh, the then chief town planner, former IAS DR Dhingra, the then Director Industries, and Kulwant Singh Lamba, the then deputy superintendent (town and country planning) department.
The proceedings against the three have come to a standstill due to the pendency of SLPs in the Supreme Court.
The apex court has already given relief to Dhare Singh and DR Dhingra, while the petition moved by Lamba is yet to come up for hearing. Meanwhile, three more accused to whom the court has given relief include former bureaucrats Sudeep Singh Dhullon, Murari Lal Tayal, and Rajeev Arora.
The Special CBI judge has fixed Aug 22 as the next date of hearing to initiate proceedings or arguments on the issue of framing charges. While referring to Dhare Singh, Kulwant Singh, and DR Dhingra, the judge has brought on record the orders and proceedings of the apex court.
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Notably, besides Hooda, the three ex-principal secretaries of Hooda's regime are faced with allegations under the PMLA case and DA case. It may be recalled that the issue concerns the 914 acres of land which was planned to be acquired for the creation of Industrial Model Township (IMT) in Manesar, Gurugram.
Soon after the notification of Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act while notifying the area to be acquired in Aug 2004, there was panic among the residents of villages identified for land acquisition.
As a result, the builders and land mafia came into play and procured the lands from villagers at throwaway rates for abstaining from certain clearances. In 2007, the industrial department freed the land from the process of acquisition.
It was alleged that the entire scam of builder-official and land mafia had political patronage, and the aggrieved moved the court. Finally, on the directions of the Supreme Court, the CBI started the probe and filed the chargesheet naming former CM Hooda.
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