India, Nov. 7 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday dismissed former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda's plea, challenging the Panchkula special CBI court order to proceed with the framing of charges against him in the Manesar land deal case.

The former Haryana chief minister had sought quashing of the Panchkula CBI court's September 19 order to dismiss his request for postponing the process of framing of charges.

The special court had fixed the date for the process of framing of charges from October 30. However, it could not be done as Hooda had challenged the trial court order in the high court on October 9.

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) counsel Ravi Kamal Gupta said that the petition had been dismissed observing ...