The CAG report also questioned the lack of transparency by the village council in leasing out the prime land. The land was straightaway offered to and given to the RGCT.
The Hooda government, which is in its second term, had gone out of the way to accommodate the land lease for RGCT in 2009 and 2010, records show.
Cornered on the issue in Aug 2011, Hooda had told the Haryana assembly: "The action of the government with regard to the grant of lease of land to RGCT is in public interest and in accordance with the law of the land."
"There is no irregularity whatsoever in lease of this land and the same has been done in accordance with the Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act and the Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Rules framed thereunder," Hooda said, defending his government's actions.
The opposition Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) is however unwilling to buy Hooda's theory.
Seeking a probe, a senior INLD leader said: "If the RGCT had social service in mind, it should have gone to backward areas of Mewat or Sirsa to serve people. It should not have chosen the most expensive address in Haryana (Gurgaon) to set up the eye hospital."
In Aug 2011, the Gurgaon district authorities had suspended two junior revenue officials for "concealing facts" that private land was part of the land acquisition initiated in Ullahwas village.
This is not the first time there has been a Congress link to a controversial land deal in Gurgaon.
