The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has named senior Congress leader and former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda as the "main conspirator" in the alleged Rs 1000-crore Manesar land scam, reported the Indian Express.
Among the 34 people chargesheeted in the case are the then principal secretary to CM, MurarI Lal Tayal, then additional secretary to CM, Chhattar Singh, officers who served under the Town and Country Planning Department, reported the Indian Express. At the time, Hooda also held the Town and Country Planning department.
A CBI probe was ordered after private builders were seen purchasing land in three villages – Lakhnaula, Naurangpur and Manesar – while the government dropped the acquisition process.