India, Sept. 3 -- A retired IAS officer of the Haryana government and 11 others have been booked in two corruption cases for allegedly approving the reallocation of two Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) land parcels in Gurugram in violation of laws, Haryana state vigilance and anti-corruption bureau officials said on Wednesday.

The FIRs were registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act at the ACB police station in Gurugram on August 26, officials said. The alleged scam took place between 2017 and 2019, when the retired bureaucrat was serving as the chief administrator of the HSVP in Panchkula.

A senior ACB official, preferring not to be named, said the official had allegedly violated rules and regulations to approve the reall...