The Enforcement Directorate on Friday performed raids at a dozen locations in Jharkhand and West Bengal as a part of a cash laundering probe into the alleged use of solid papers on the market of protection land in these states.
The federal company is conducting raids at round eight locations in Ranchi and adjoining areas and 4 in Kolkata, together with premises linked to arrested businessman Amit Agarwal.
He mentioned that some actual property sellers, personal individuals and linked entities are being searched by the ED groups.
He mentioned the probe stemmed from the FIR filed by the Jharkhand Police to probe the alleged use of solid papers within the sale and buy of protection land.
Agarwal was arrested by the ED final month for alleged conspiracy to “implicate” advocate Rajiv Kumar, representing one of many petitioners in two PILs filed towards Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren.
The case additionally pertains to the alleged unlawful mining case being probed by the ED, during which it had just lately summoned Soren and arrested considered one of his associates and two others.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
