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Land scam: Ex-CM Bhoopinder Hooda's security in-charge offers to reveal all

Desh Bandhu has said that he is willing to give a statement to the CBI.

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A police officer working for Bhupinder Singh Hooda  has offered to be a witness against former Haryana CM in a land scam, reports NDTV.

Desh Bandu was working as Deputy Superintendent of Police rank officer and was incharge of Hooda's security when he was in power. "I came to know about visitors, whose work got done, or did not get done at the Chief Minister's house. If the CBI wants I can give a statement, I know a lot about these details," Desh Bandhu said.

He wrote to Khattar when Hooda's residences were raided. 

In what seems to be a massive search operation, the Central Bureau of Investigation raided 20 locations on Saturday, including residences of former Haryana  Hooda, in connection to an alleged land scam case worth Rs1,500 crore.The massive search operation undertaken by CBI was spread across four states and included residences of several senior government officials who have worked under Hooda during his tenure as the CM of Haryana.

CBI spokesperson R K Gaur said the raids were being conducted at 20 locations including Delhi, Gurugram, Panchkula, Chandigarh, Panchkula and Rohtak. Official sources told dna that Hooda's two residences, one in Rohtak and other in Chandigarh, were raided by the probe agency in the early morning.

Among other officials whose premises were raided include Dhare Singh, the then Chief Town Planner in department of Town and Country planning, MS Chopra and Randhir Singh, both OSD's to Hooda, Jaswant Singh the district town planner and Kulwant Singh the deputy superintendent of town and county planning department.

The case, registered by the agency in September last year, pertains to the release of around 400 acres of land acquired by the previous Congress government at throwaway prices from villagers in Gurugram and allegedly sold off to private builders. The land was located in three villages Manesar, Naurangpur and Lakhnoula was allotted between 2004 and 2007, during the part tenure of both INLD's Om Prakash Chautala and Congress leader Hooda.

According to the probe agency, the Haryana Government had issued notification regarding acquisition of land measuring about 912 acres for setting up an Industrial Model Township in villages Manesar, Naurangpur and Lakhnoula of Gurugram area. The accusation against Hooda and other officials is that the land was sold at throwaway prices.

"Land measuring about 400 acres, whose market value at that time was about four crore per acre totaling about Rs1600 crore was allegedly purchased by the private builders from the land owners for only Rs100 crores. The alleged loss to the land owners of village Manesar was of Rs1,500 crores," said a CBI official.

With agency inputs.

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