Chandigarh, Feb. 21 -- The comptroller and auditor general (CAG) report, tabled in the Haryana Assembly on Friday, has found that the Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) used a piece of privately owned land for a road project in Gurugram without acquiring it or paying compensation to the land owners.

The lapse forced the landowners to petition the Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) which subsequently directed the HSVP to purchase the land under new land acquisition law for Rs.3.97 crore, resulting in an additional burden of Rs.3.66 crore on the public exchequer.

"Thus, use of the unacquired land in a road project by HSVP in violation of the constitutional right of the landowners and provisions of land acquisition laws and its acquis...