National Herald case: former Haryana CM Hooda booked

NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate has booked former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, officials of the Associated Journal Limited, publisher of the National Herald newspaper, and others on charges of alleged money laundering. Officials said the central probe agency registered a criminal case under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act after taking cognisance of a Haryana State Vigilance Bureau FIR of May this year. The vigilance Bureau had registered a case of cheating and corruption against Hooda and four officials who were in HUDA for allegedly re-allotting a plot to AJL in Panchkula in 2005.