New Delhi/Rohtak: In more trouble for senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda, the CBI booked the former Haryana chief minister on cheating and corruption charges in connection with land acquisition in Gurgaon that favoured private builders and also conducted searches at 20 locations, including his Rohtak residence.

The Congress as well as Hooda, 71, hit out at the Centre over the raids by the CBI, calling it nothing but "political vendetta" to suppress his voice and defame him. The CBI also named in the FIR Additional Chief Secretary, Haryana, Trilok Chand Gupta, who was the then chief administrator, HUDA, along with 15 builders, including DLF, Emaar MGF, Buzz Hotels, Ansals whose official premises were searched during the operation in the morning, officials said.