Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has also recommended a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged irregularities in the previous Congress government's regime.

The Haryana government today ordered the state vigilance department to register a First Information Report (FIR) against former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and three officials in a case concerning illegal allotment of industrial plots in Panchkula.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has also recommended a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged irregularities in the previous Congress government's regime.

"After the vigilance inquiry found irregularities in the allotment of plots, the chief minister has recommended a CBI probe for further inquiry," OSD to the chief minister Jawahar Yadav said.

The chief minister has ordered the vigilance department to register an FIR in the case, after which the matter would be referred to CBI, he added.

The ruling BJP had charged Hooda with allotting plots to candidates who were either his relatives or his close associates and friends.

Yadav said Khattar ordered registration of an FIR in the case on the legal opinion by Haryana's Advocate General Baldev Raj Mahajan.

According to the AG's legal opinion, an FIR deserves to be registered against the then Chairman, Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), besides some other officials including the then Chief Administrator of HUDA.

In May, the BJP government had ordered a vigilance inquiry into the allotment of the industrial plots by Hooda-led Congress government in industrial estate, Panchkula, in December 2011 to the alleged "undeserving candidates".

State Vigilance Bureau later registered a case for regular inquiry in the case in which industrial plots ranging from 496 square metres to 1,280 square metres were allegedly allotted to the candidates who were either relatives of the then chief minister (Hooda) or those of his close associates and friends.



(With inputs from agencies)

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