Chief Engineer of Rural Development, Virendra Ram being taken to Ranchi civil court docket after he was arrested throughout a raid by the Enforcement Directorate in reference to the Money laundering case, in Ranchi. File.
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The Jharkhand authorities has suspended its Rural Development Department’s Chief Engineer Virendra Kumar Ram, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a cash laundering case.
A particular PMLA court docket right here on February 23 despatched Mr. Ram to ED custody for 5 days. The case is linked to alleged irregularities within the implementation of some schemes.
“Virendra Kumar Ram, Chief Engineer, Rural Development, has been suspended under Jharkhand Government Servant Rules-2016 with effect from February 23, 2023, the date he was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate under Section 19 of the PMLA, till the next order,” an official launch mentioned on Monday.
Mr. Ram was taken into ED custody after a chronic session of questioning at its workplace right here. The motion got here after the central probe company launched a number of searches on February 21 in Ranchi, Jamshedpur and some different locations in Jharkhand, Bihar and Delhi.
Official sources had mentioned Mr. Ram was “evasive” in his replies to the ED.
