2nd chargesheet in Manesar case

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 7

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday said it filed a second prosecution complaint (chargesheet) against 13 individuals and entities in the Manesar land scam under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

The ED, in a statement, said the fresh chargesheet contained the details of attached assets of the accused worth Rs108.79 crore and the alleged “perpetration of money laundering”. It has been filed before a special PMLA court in Panchkula.

The ED said it named Atul Bansal of ABW Infrastructure Limited, ABW Infra Limited (ABWIL), Bansal’s wife Sona Bansal, Mahamaya Exports Private Limited, Shashikant Chaurasia, Dilip Lalwani, Varinder Uppal, Vijay Uppal, Viney Uppal, Ravinder Taneja, TDI Infrastructure Limited, Wisdom Realtors Private Limited and AB Rephcons Infrastructure Private Limited.

The ED initiated its investigation under the PMLA in September 2016 on the basis of an FIR registered by the Gurugram police. Later, the CBI took over the probe.

In the FIR, it was alleged that the Haryana Government had issued notification under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, on August 27, 2004, and issued a notification under Section 6 of the Act on August 25 in 2005 for the acquisition of 912 acres for setting up an Industrial Model Township in Manesar, Naurangpur and Lakhnoula villages of Gurugram district.

Farmers and landowners alleged they were cheated to the tune of about Rs1,500 crore. Former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda is an accused in the land acquisition case.