<p> The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday conducted searches at 10 locations in Delhi and Haryana in connection with its money laundering probe into the irregularities in land acquisition in Gurugram’s Manesar.<br /><br />Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has been named in the FIR filed by probe agency in September last year, which deals with financial irregularities in the acquisition of land wherein farmers were cheated to the tune of Rs 1,500 crore.<br /><br />The searches were conducted on the premises of eight people — IAS officers, Haryana government officials and builders — across 10 locations in Delhi, Gurugram and a few places in Haryana, sources said. <br /><br />The ED has filed the case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act on the basis of a CBI FIR against Hooda and others. <br /><br />The CBI FIR had said that private builders had entered into a conspiracy with Haryana government officials to purchase around 400 acres from farmers and land owners of Manesar, Naurangpur and Lakhnoula in Gurugram district at throwaway prices after showing the threat of acquisition by the government.<br /><br />It said the state government had initially issued notifications for the acquisition of land measuring about 912 acres for setting up an Industrial Model Township. Following this, a large number of land owners sold their land at throwaway prices in haste.<br /></p>
<p> The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday conducted searches at 10 locations in Delhi and Haryana in connection with its money laundering probe into the irregularities in land acquisition in Gurugram’s Manesar.<br /><br />Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has been named in the FIR filed by probe agency in September last year, which deals with financial irregularities in the acquisition of land wherein farmers were cheated to the tune of Rs 1,500 crore.<br /><br />The searches were conducted on the premises of eight people — IAS officers, Haryana government officials and builders — across 10 locations in Delhi, Gurugram and a few places in Haryana, sources said. <br /><br />The ED has filed the case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act on the basis of a CBI FIR against Hooda and others. <br /><br />The CBI FIR had said that private builders had entered into a conspiracy with Haryana government officials to purchase around 400 acres from farmers and land owners of Manesar, Naurangpur and Lakhnoula in Gurugram district at throwaway prices after showing the threat of acquisition by the government.<br /><br />It said the state government had initially issued notifications for the acquisition of land measuring about 912 acres for setting up an Industrial Model Township. Following this, a large number of land owners sold their land at throwaway prices in haste.<br /></p>
