Money laundering case to be filed against five people including Surjakhera, ED filed chargesheet in HSVP scam

August 9, 2025

A money laundering case will be filed against five people, including former MLA Ram Niwas Surjakheda, former department official Sunil Kumar Bansal, in the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HSVP) scam. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday filed a chargesheet against the five accused, including Surjakheda in a special court in Panchkula under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

The ED has revealed embezzlement of public money worth Rs 225.51 crore in the chargesheet. The case is related to the embezzlement of public money from the bank accounts of HSVP, formerly known as HUDA. According to the ED chargesheet, both Sunil Kumar Bansal and Ram Niwas Surjakheda have been former HSVP officers. Surjakheda has been a former MLA of Haryana in the year 2019-2024.

The ED investigation revealed that between 2015 and 2019, transactions worth about Rs 70 crore were made from HSVP’s Chandigarh-based Punjab National Bank account to the accounts of some suspicious people. There was no valid reason for this. HSVP’s internal investigation revealed that this bank account was not even registered in their cash branch or IT wing.

This made it clear that this fraud was done secretly by Sunil Kumar Bansal and Ram Niwas. ED in its investigation, found 10 more bank accounts linked to HSVP. Similar frauds had taken place in these, too. After investigation, ED found that an amount of about 225.51 crores has been embezzled, which has been declared as proceeds of crime. ED arrested Sunil Kumar Bansal and Ram Niwas on June 9. Both are currently in judicial custody. ED has so far attached properties worth 27.30 crores in this case.