Jharkhand: Arrested IAS officer Chhavi Ranjan remanded to 6-day ED custody in land scam case

Land deal scam: A particular PMLA courtroom in Ranchi on Saturday remanded six-day Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody to Jharkhand IAS officer Chhavi Ranjan, who was arrested in reference to its probe into alleged “illegal” land offers. According to an official, the ED had sought 10-day custody to interrogate the previous Ranchi Deputy Commissioner.

He was arrested late on Thursday night time (May 4) and brought into ED custody after he was interrogated for round 10 hours. A day later the IAS officer was despatched to Birsa Munda Central Jail. 

What IAS officer’s lawyer stated?

Meanwhile, Ranjan’s lawyer Abhishek Krishna Gupta stated the courtroom remanded the 2011-batch IAS officer of the Jharkhand cadre to six days of ED custody, and he’ll once more be produced on May 12.

The investigating officer of the case recorded an announcement of Ranjan beneath provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Earlier on April 24, the ED additionally questioned him for round 10 hours in reference to its cash laundering probe into the alleged unlawful land offers.

Ranjan was briefly questioned by the company on April 13 as nicely, when searches have been carried out at his premises and people of some others in Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal. The ED had earlier arrested seven folks, together with a Jharkhand authorities officer, after the raids. 

Over a dozen land offers beneath investigation

The central company is investigating greater than a dozen land offers, together with one pertaining to defence land, whereby a gaggle of mafias, middlemen and bureaucrats allegedly “connived” in forging deeds and paperwork from as early as 1932.

Land parcels of the poor and the downtrodden have been ‘usurped’ as a part of this fraud, sources had stated. This is the second case in which a Jharkhand cadre IAS officer has come beneath the scanner of the ED.

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Last 12 months, the central company arrested 2000-batch IAS officer Pooja Singhal in a cash laundering case linked to the alleged embezzlement of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme funds in Khunti and different suspicious monetary transactions. 

(With PTI inputs) 

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