Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday dismissed a plea by Haryana’s former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda to stall his trial in a corruption case linked to a case of land deal of Manesar, Gurugram, as the Supreme Court had stayed proceedings against several of his co-accused in the same case.

Rejecting Hooda’s plea, Justice Tribhuvan Dahiya held that the pendency of stay orders in favour of others cannot be used as a shield to stall a trial. The high court's dismissal of Hooda’s plea paves the way for his trial in the case by CBI court.

For record, the case stems from an FIR registered against Hooda and others in 2015 at Manesar in Gurugram district of Haryana, accusing them of cheating, criminal conspiracy and misuse of official position by ``forcing’’ landowner

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