Bhartesh Singh Thakur
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, January 4
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday filed a chargesheet against three former government officials and two firms in the CBI Special Court in Panchkula in a Gurugram land release case.
The investigating agency chargesheeted former Chief Town Planner Jagbir Singh Redhu, former Assistant Town Planner Satish Kumar Arora, former Town and Country Planning (TCP) Deputy Superintendent Rajbir Singh, M/s Commander Realtors and M/s Bharma City Private Limited for cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy.
The officials had been accused of making back references to colonisers for rectifying deficiencies in their applications for licences without approval of the Director, TCP Department.
The CBI FIR had also mentioned former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, ACS for Power Trilok Chand Gupta and 13 firms as accused, but charges had not been pressed against them so far.
According to the FIR, many pockets sandwiched between land on which licences were applied had been proposed for acquisition in Gurugram in the name of creating a land bank for Haryana Urban Development Authority.
The notification for acquisition of 1,417.07 acres under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act was issued on June 2, 2009. It compelled owners to sell their land to colonisers at a price lower than the price before the notification.
The Supreme Court had directed the CBI to investigate the case vide an order in 2017. The next date of hearing in the case is January 18.
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