Hooda’s sister-in-law among 3 booked for duping woman

Tribune News Service

Sirsa, June 5

Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s sister-in-law (his brother’s wife) is among three facing an FIR for cheating registered in Rori police station of Sirsa.

Inderjit Kaur, a resident of Bhima village in Sirsa, has accused Hooda’s brother Inder Singh’s wife, Raj Kaur, and two others— Sukhdev Singh and Dalbir Singh— of having cheated her by receiving Rs 11 lakh for jobs as panchayat secretaries to two of her kin. However, they neither provided jobs nor returned the money.

Inderjit Kaur alleged in her complaint that her kin, Dalbir Singh, lived in Bajpur village of Udham Singh Nagar in Uttarakhand where Hooda’s brother, Inder Singh, has his farmhouse.

Inderjit Kaur alleged that during the Hooda regime, she had got her relative appointed as a drawing teacher by paying Rs 6 lakh to Dalbir Singh, who told her that he had got the work done through Raj Kaur by paying her the money.

She alleged that in April, 2012, she paid Rs 11 lakh to Raj Kaur through Sukhdev Singh, whom she described as Kaur’s relative, for jobs as panchayat sachivs to two of her relatives.

Inderjit Kaur alleged that her relatives neither got the jobs nor did she get her money back.

The police have registered an FIR under Section 420, IPC, against Raj Kaur, Dalbir Singh and Sukhdev Singh.

Former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda has contradicted the allegations against his sister-in-law and said the case of totally false and frivolous. “None of my relatives has ever accepted money from anyone or interfered in the recruitments,” Hooda maintained.

Sirsa SP Ashwin Shenvi said though Raj Kaur’s name figured in the FIR, there was only a passing reference to her in the complaint lodged by Inderjit Kaur.

Shenvi said the woman had not alleged that she paid money to Hooda’s sister-in-law, but that she paid the money to persons who claimed to have given it to Raj Kaur for the jobs.