CBI lodges case against Hooda

In trouble for former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, CBI has registered a case for alleged irregularities in allocation of industrial plots at Panchkula when he was the chairman of Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), a move dubbed by him as "personal vendetta".
The case which was handed over from Vigilance Bureau of Haryana to the CBI has named "the then Chairman of HUDA", three former bureaucrats, 13 beneficiaries and unknown officials of the authority and state government.
The Chief Minister is the chairman of HUDA.
After registering the case on May 16, CBI carried out searches at 16 locations including Chandigarh, Panchkula, Faridabad, Delhi, Gurgaon, Karnal, Kurukshetra and Rohtak against the former bureaucrats and beneficiaries who are alleged to have used their "links" in getting industrial plots at Panchkula.

According to the FIR, industrial plots were given to 14 people by allegedly manipulating certain provisions of allotment which included allowing them to submit their applications even after the last date of submission ended.
The 14 people who had been alloted lands had submitted their applications on January 24, 2012 whereas the last date of submission was January 6, 2012, the FIR alleged.

The former Chief Minister, while reacting to the CBI move, termed it as "personal vendetta" and alleged that these cases were only "diversionary tactics" being adopted by BJP-led government in the state.
"They have not been able to fulfil any of the promises made so far. So they are diverting the people's attention through such cases which is purely witch-hunting.

"The state government could have waited for the order of Punjab and Haryana High Court where the matter is already pending," he said.