Chargesheet against Dhumal, Anurag Thakur

The Himachal Pradesh state vigilance and anti-corruption bureau on Friday filed a chargesheet against former chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal and his parliamentarian son Anurag Thakur.

The Himachal Pradesh state vigilance and anti-corruption bureau on Friday filed a chargesheet against former chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal and his parliamentarian son Anurag Thakur, among others, in the Nurpur circuit court over alleged wrong-doings in allotment of land to Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) during Dhumal’s tenure from 2003 to 2007.

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The move followed the Himachal Pradesh high court’s dismissing the HPCA’s petition, seeking the quashing of the FIR against the sports body on August 1, 2013, under the Prevention of Corruption Act, on Friday. Thakur said that the probe was vendetta.