Gurugram: The police on Saturday booked Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s brother-in-law Robert Vadra, former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and others in a land scam in Gurugram.
DLF Company Gurugram and Onkareshwar Properties Gurugram have also been named in the FIR registered at Kherki Daula police station in Gurgaon.
The case was registered on the complaint of Surender Sharma, a resident of Tauru, alleging that a company belonging to Vadra’s Skylight Hospitality cheated him along with others.
A case was registered under sections of 420(cheating), 120 (hatching conspiracy) and 467, 468, 471(forgery) under the Indian Penal Code here.
After the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in Haryana, it set up a one-man commission of Justice SN Dhingra on May 14, 2015 to probe the land scam.
The commission probed the alleged irregularities in the grant of licence by the Haryana Department of Town and Country Planning to some companies, including those of Robert Vadra, son-in-law of then Congress President Sonia Gandhi, in Sector 83 of Gurugram for developing commercial colonies.
Deals were allegedly inked for land in Shikohpur, Sihi, Kherki Daula and Sikanderpur Badha villages in Gurugram.