AMN /
The CBI has filed a charge sheet against former Haryana chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and 33 others in the Manesar land deal case.
The agency officials said, CBI has filed the charge sheet under IPC sections related to criminal conspiracy and cheating, and relevant provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Former UPSC member Chattar Singh, who was a senior officer in the Haryana government at that time, has also been named in the charge sheet as an accused.
The CBI has alleged in its FIR that land measuring about 400 acres, whose market value at that time was above 4 crore rupees per acre, was allegedly purchased by private builders and others from innocent land owners for only about 100 crore rupees in collusion with government officers during the period between August 2004 to August 2007.
The CBI had said that a loss of 1,500 crore rupees was allegedly caused to the land owners of Manesar, Naurangpur and Lakhnoula villages of Gurgaon.