Chandigarh: The Supreme Court on Wednesday direct CBI to investigate the release of land in Haryana’s Rohtak to real estate developers under the Government of Congress of the Head of Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
Judge Bangku Lalit, Ajay Rastogi and Aniruddha Bose passed the order for the CBI probe.
At the Land Scam Rohtak, the authority of the Urban Development Haryana (Huda) has proposed to obtain around 850 hectares of land in 2002 in Rohtak.
But in April 2003, only 441 hectares were obtained and remained land released for private builders to develop colonies.
In 2013, the Punjab and Haryana High Court and the Supreme Court in May 2016 had ruled out the decision of the Government of Haryana to release land to private invaders.
The High Court has even charged two senior bureaucrats posted in the office at that time CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda for allegedly liking the developer.
“The state government officers, in their anxiety to help builders, have fully ignored the interests of land owners or the general public to whom the thousands of plots can be given at a fairly low price through the Aegis Huda,” The Aegis of Huda, “The High Court has observed In 2013.
The Supreme Court in 2016 also asked the government of Haryana to take action against guilty officers but there was no action taken until now.
In March 2018, Minister of Manohar’s Chairperson Lal Khattar called on the CBI probe in this issue, but then the government Haryana ordered an investigation by a retired judge.
In 2017, the investigation was carried out by retired officers IAS Rajan Gupta, who did not improve anyone’s responsibility in this matter, and more precisely called systematic failure.