CBI files case against Bhupinder Hooda in AJL land allotment probe

A case has been registered by the CBI on Thursday against former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Hooda in connection with alleged irregularities in the land allotted to Associated Journals Limited in Panchkula. In the FIR, the CBI claimed a plot 3,360 square metre plot in Sector 6, Panchkula was allotted



to AJL in 1982 and no construction was done till 1992. The plot was later repossessed by the Haryana Urban Development Authority. However, in 2005 it was re-alloted to AJL by allegedly violating the norms laid down by the HUDA. Hooda was also chairman of the urban development body at that time.