Jharkhand IAS officer seeks current date from ED in money laundering probe
4 min readBy PTI
NEW DELHI/RANCHI: After the Enforcement Directorate (ED) requested Jharkhand IAS officer Chhavi Ranjan to look sooner than it by 4 pm on Friday for his questioning in a money laundering investigation linked to an alleged illegal land sale, he sought a current date saying he is not in Ranchi now.
Ranjan’s lawyer talked about he’ll return to the state capital on Saturday evening.
The 2011-batch officer had initially been requested to look sooner than Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers on April 21 on the corporate’s office in Ranchi in reference to the probe.
Ranjan appealed for deferment of its summons previous April 21.
The ED, nonetheless, rejected his plea and requested him to ensure the deposition by 4 pm on Friday.
Ranjan’s lawyer Abhishek Krishna Gupta talked about, “Since he is out of town and would return on Saturday evening, we have sought any other date next week and assured the ED that he will appear for questioning and extend full cooperation to the agency probing the case.”
The officer was questioned briefly by the corporate on April 13 when searches have been carried out on this case at his premises and other people of some others in Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal.
An assistant registrar of assurances of the West Bengal authorities based totally in Kolkata has moreover been requested to depose on May 2, ED sources had talked about.
The firm had arrested an entire of seven people, along with a Jharkhand authorities officer, after these raids.
The movement was taken beneath the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and the corporate is looking at higher than a dozen land presents, along with one pertaining to defence land, whereby a gaggle along with land mafia, middlemen and bureaucrats allegedly “connived” in forging land deeds and paperwork from as early as 1932.
Land of the poor and the downtrodden have been “usurped” as part of this fraud, ED sources had talked about.
To launch its investigation beneath the PMLA, the federal firm took cognisance of a police FIR of forgery of some non-public identification paperwork registered by the civic authorities concerned.
The firm, in keeping with the sources, has recovered quite a few faux seals, land deeds and registry paperwork by way of the searches.
This is the second case by way of which a Jharkhand cadre IAS officer has come beneath the scanner of the ED.
Last 12 months, the ED had raided and arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal in a money laundering case.
NEW DELHI/RANCHI: After the Enforcement Directorate (ED) requested Jharkhand IAS officer Chhavi Ranjan to look sooner than it by 4 pm on Friday for his questioning in a money laundering investigation linked to an alleged illegal land sale, he sought a current date saying he is not in Ranchi now.
Ranjan’s lawyer talked about he’ll return to the state capital on Saturday evening.
The 2011-batch officer had initially been requested to look sooner than Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers on April 21 on the corporate’s office in Ranchi in reference to the probe.googletag.cmd.push(carry out() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
Ranjan appealed for deferment of its summons previous April 21.
The ED, nonetheless, rejected his plea and requested him to ensure the deposition by 4 pm on Friday.
Ranjan’s lawyer Abhishek Krishna Gupta talked about, “Since he is out of town and would return on Saturday evening, we have sought any other date next week and assured the ED that he will appear for questioning and extend full cooperation to the agency probing the case.”
The officer was questioned briefly by the corporate on April 13 when searches have been carried out on this case at his premises and other people of some others in Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal.
An assistant registrar of assurances of the West Bengal authorities based totally in Kolkata has moreover been requested to depose on May 2, ED sources had talked about.
The firm had arrested an entire of seven people, along with a Jharkhand authorities officer, after these raids.
The movement was taken beneath the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and the corporate is looking at higher than a dozen land presents, along with one pertaining to defence land, whereby a gaggle along with land mafia, middlemen and bureaucrats allegedly “connived” in forging land deeds and paperwork from as early as 1932.
Land of the poor and the downtrodden have been “usurped” as part of this fraud, ED sources had talked about.
To launch its investigation beneath the PMLA, the federal firm took cognisance of a police FIR of forgery of some non-public identification paperwork registered by the civic authorities concerned.
The firm, in keeping with the sources, has recovered quite a few faux seals, land deeds and registry paperwork by way of the searches.
This is the second case by way of which a Jharkhand cadre IAS officer has come beneath the scanner of the ED.
Last 12 months, the ED had raided and arrested IAS officer Pooja Singhal in a money laundering case.
