Sonepat-Kharkhoda IMT land case
Sonepat-Kharkhoda IMT land case | |
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Court | Supreme Court of India |
Full case name | Sonepat-Kharkhoda Industrial Model Township land scam case |
Decided | 4 February 2014[1] |
Case history | |
Subsequent action(s) | CBI inquiry |
Keywords | |
Political scams in India |
Sonepat-Kharkhoda Industrial Model Township land case being investigated by the
There are a total of 6 CBI cases and several other vigilance department investigations against Hooda underway.
Details
Modus of scam
"The state's power of eminent domain was abused to force farmer-landowners to sell their lands to private colonizer. The licences became the basis subsequently to release land causing wrongful benefits to the private colonizer."
— Ashok Khemka, IAS, [4]
Ashok Khemka, a senior Indian Administrative Service officer in of Haryana known for exposing corruption and for cancelling the mutation of Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's illegal land deal in Gurgaon,[7][8][9] had written to Chief Minister and Chief Secretary of Haryana to seek the CBI investigation, with the findings that both Rohtak and Sonipat land scams were more blatant than the Manesar scam.[4] In 2005, Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) notified 885 acres for acquisition for housing colony for industrial workers in sectors 59 and 60 of Sonipat, out of which 300-acre land was illegally released to a private builder.[4]
418 acres in Sonipat was released from acquisition in the same way as it was done in Gurugram-Manesar IMT land scam Manesar during Hooda’s administration.[1] 642 acres of land in 5 villages was notified for acquisition for developing residential and commercial sectors, by
"Out of more than 600 acres of land decided to be acquired for that purpose, more than 418 acres of land already stands released in favour of the private builders. Colourable exercise of power for benefit of private builders in whose favour the land ... has been released after the issuance of Section 6."
— Punjab and Haryana High Court, 4 February 2014, [1]
Current status: CBI inquiry
Subsequently, in March 2018 the Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar BJP's Government of Haryana referred the case to CBI to conduct further investigation against Hooda and others.[10][3][11][2] Supreme Court had also ordered Haryana Government to take action on the Dhingra Commission's report, set up to investigate grant of land licences, so that "pending issues could be cracked".[1]
See also
- Corruption in India
- National Herald scam
- Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust land grab cases
- Robert Vadra land grab cases
- List of scams in India
References
- ^ Indian Express, 14 Mar 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f Hooda under investigation by CBI in several cases, Navbharat Times, 13 Mar 2018.
- ^ a b Bhupinder Singh Hooda in the docks? Rohtak, Sonipat land cases handed over to CBI , NewsX, 14 Mar 2018.
- ^ Times of India, 14 Mar 2018.
- The Tribune, 14 March 2018.
- ^ Hooda’s land largesse for pvt builder ‘clear fraud’, SC restores it to HUDA, Firstpost, 15 May 2016.
- ^ "Officer with impeccable integrity". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012.
- ^ "Ashok Khemka's Crime? Durga Shakti's Crime? Honesty !!". India Opines.
- ^ "Unbequemer Beamter - Von dauernder Versetzung gefährdet". Der Spiegel. 15 April 2015.
- The Tribune(India), 14 Mar 2018.
- ^ Two more land acquisition cases during Cong rule given to CBI: Khattar, Webindia, 13 Mar 2018.