New Delhi: The CBI Friday registered a new case against former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and others over alleged irregularities in land allocation and carried out searches at 30 locations in Delhi-NCR.
A team of officials arrived early morning at Hooda's residence in Rohtak, Haryana,. His son Deepinder Singh Hooda MP was also present in the house.
The former CM faces allegations of using his influence to allot a plot for Associated Journal Limited (AJL), the parent company of the National Herald newspaper.
The agency is tight-lipped about the details of the case as the search operation is underway.
'Raids aimed to stop Hooda from going to Jind poll rally'
Meanwhile, Congress MLA Kuldeep Sharma lambasted the BJP government and charged that the action was intended to stop the senior Congress leader from attending a poll rally to be held Friday in the run up to the Jind bypoll.
The bypoll, which has turned out to be a multi-cornered contest, will take place on January 28.
"The Jind byelection is going to take place and a poll rally is to be held today. It (CBI raid) was to happen and it was carried out with an intention of political ill will in order to influence the byelection," Sharma said while talking to reporters in Rohtak.
"The BJP government got this despicable act done in order to stop Hooda from going to the rally," alleged Sharma, who is MLA from Ganaur.
Hooda was to address the poll rally in favour of Congress nominee Randeep Singh Surjewala in Jind. The former Haryana chief minister, along with other senior leaders, have been campaigning for Surjewala for the crucial bypoll.
The Congress has fielded Jat leader and All India Congress Committee communication in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala, a sitting legislator from Kaithal. The ruling BJP has nominated Krishan Middha, son of INLD legislator Hari Chand Middha, whose death necessitated the bypoll.
The Indian National Lok Dal has fielded local Jat leader Umedh Singh Redhu, while the newly floated Jannayak Janta Party, a breakaway party from the Chautala family-led INLD, nominated political greenhorn Digvijay Singh Chautala.
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