Hooda’s land largesse for pvt builder ‘clear fraud’, SC restores it to HUDA

A landmark Supreme Court judgement has given huge relief to farmers/landowners, while quashing the “illegal” and “deceptive” licensing of 280 acres of land in Rohtak, Haryana in 2006 to Uddar Gaggan Properties Ltd.

This serves as a body blow to former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and other state officials who are facing multiple probes for facilitating the private enrichment of builders through similar illegal licensing.

“The unholy nexus to promote the private interests” of builders by “transfer of resources of poor for the benefit of the rich”, through “gross abuse of law” and “clear fraud” referred to in the judgement, has been detailed in a series of media exposes, beginning October 8, 2012, first about the irregularities in property dealings involving real estate major DLF and Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra, while later going on to uncover Hooda’s modus operandi to favor a host of other builders, including Uddar Gaggan.

Hooda’s modus operandi

This earlier expose had revealed that Hooda was acquiring land from poor, illiterate farmers at a low rate in the name of ‘public interest’ only to later license this to builders after bestowing out-of-turn favors that helped the land value increase exponentially.

The facts disclosed therein, had pointed to Hooda’s motivation in licensing a staggering 24,825 acres of land during his 10-year tenure as Chief Minister, as against just 8,550.32 acres by successive Chief Ministers in the 23 years preceding Mr. Hooda’s rise to power in 2004.

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