Feb 25 next date of hearing in Manesar land case

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, February 11

The CBI and the defence counsel continued their arguments over the chargesheet filed in the Manesar land scam in which former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda is the main accused. It came up for hearing in the Special CBI court on Tuesday.

Defence counsel SPS Parmar said arguments over the chargesheet filed by the CBI were held in the court. He said though the arguments had been completed, the CBI had sought more time to argue the charges framed against one of the accused Gaurav Chaudhary. He said the court had now fixed February 25 as the next date of hearing.

Bhupinder Singh Hooda along with other 33 accused in the case was present in the court today.

The promoter of Gurgaon-based real estate company ABW Builders, Atul Bansal had been declared a proclaimed offender in the case.

Alleging a multi-crore scam of prime land in Manesar in Gurugram, the CBI had filed a chargesheet in the land deal against Hooda, senior bureaucrats and others. The chargesheet named 34 accused, including senior bureaucrats Chhattar Singh, SS Dhillon, ML Tayal and Atul Bansal

The CBI had registered a case against the accused in September 2015 following allegations that private builders in collusion with public servants had bought 400 acres from farmers and landowners of Manesar, Naurangpur and Lakhnoula villages in Gurugram at throwaway prices.