Panchkula AJL case: ED questions Motilal Vohra, Hooda

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ The senior Congress leaders Motilal Vora and Ex-Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda have been questioned by the ED in connection with the money laundering probe into alleged irregularities in the allotment of a plot to AJL, publisher of the National Herald newspaper, in Panchkula in 2005.

Vora (88), the national treasurer of the All India Congress Committee, was questioned two days back at his residence, officials said. At the same time Hooda was also questioned in Chandigarh.

Vora was questioned in the case in his capacity as the Chairman and Managing Director of the Associated Journal Limited (AJL), they added. The ED questioned Vora at his residence making a special concession in this regard owing to his old age and his request to be grilled at home.

The central agency has recorded the statements of the two Congress leaders under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they said. They were also confronted with some documents seized and recovered in this case, officials added.