ED attaches assets of `281cr in case tied to Hooda | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: : In a Gurgaon land seize and cash laundering case price over Rs 1,500 crore, the ED on Tuesday hooked up properties price over Rs 281 crore. The complete attachment in the case, in which former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda is one of the accused, has crossed Rs 390 crore.
Three chargesheets have additionally been filed in the case up to now. The land rip-off in Manesar, Gurgaon is expounded to an acquisition order issued by the Haryana authorities in 2005 when Hooda was CM. The notification was issued for acquisition of 912 acres for organising a mannequin industrial township in Manesar and villages in Gurgaon. “A large number of land owners, in haste, had to sell about 400 acres at throwaway price to private builders and thereby caused a wrongful loss of Rs 1,500 crore to the land owners,” an ED official stated. It claimed the land was later “freed from compulsory acquisition by the state government as a result of conspiracy by politicians, bureaucrats and private builders”.
A prosecution grievance (chargesheet) and two supplementary chargesheets have already been filed by the company. Most of the land was bought by corporations managed by Atul Bansal, in accordance to ED. In the contemporary order, ED has hooked up Bansal’s stakes in Dove Infrastructure Pvt Ltd price Rs 109 crore; Business Bay Project of Seriatim Land &Housing Pvt Ltd price Rs 78 crore; flats and FDR; Rs 25.53 crore refunds from HSIIDC and 20 acres and 20 flats in Frontier Home Developers price about Rs 52 crore.