Panchkula, Nov. 4 -- The Panchkula CBI court has accepted the closure report in a decade-old case concerning the mandatory purchase of Bayer's Raxil 2% DS fungicide for wheat seed treatment during the tenure of former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. The report was accepted after finding no sufficient evidence of criminal conspiracy, cheating, or wrongful loss to the government.

The CBI court, in an October 31 order, held that the investigation had failed to substantiate allegations of conspiracy, dishonest decision-making, financial loss to the government, or unlawful pecuniary advantage to public officials.

Hooda, who was the Haryana CM from 2005 to 2014, chaired the October 6, 2010 meeting where the purchase and use of R...