Former Haryana CM Hooda moves High Court in corruption case

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, June 30

Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court, challenging Panchkula CBI Special Judge’s order vide which charges have been framed against him and other accused.

The petition, filed through counsel Arshdeep Singh Cheema, is listed for hearing before Justice Arvind Singh Sangwan of the High Court on Thursday.

Cheema has sought directions for setting aside the impugned order dated April 16 passed by the Special Judge in an FIR registered on April 5, 2017, for cheating and criminal conspiracy under Sections 120-B and 420 of IPC, besides provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Directions have also been sought to acquit Hooda of all charges levelled against him, in the “interest of justice”.

The stay on proceeding of the case before the CBI Special Judge, during the pendency of the present criminal revision petition, was also sought