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Ranchi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had asked Ranchi’s former DC IAS Chhavi Ranjan to appear on Friday in the Bariatu-based army land scam case. Earlier on Thursday, IAS Chhavi Ranjan sought two weeks’ time to appear before the ED. On the other hand, ED has sent summons to Additional Registrar, Kolkata Trideep Mishra in this matter and asked him to appear in the ED office on May 2.
ED arrested seven people on April 13
On April 13, the ED arrested seven people while taking action in the Army Land Scam case. Those arrested include businessman Pradeep Bagchi, CI Bhanu Pratap, Afsar Ali, Imtiaz Khan, Talha Khan, Fayaz Khan and Mohammad Saddam. The ED produced the seven arrested accused before the court on Friday, April 14, amid tight security where the court sent everyone to judicial custody. After this, the ED is interrogating all the accused. ED will interrogate IAS Chhavi Ranjan on the basis of the facts revealed in the interrogation during the remand. The ED raided 22 locations of 18 people including IAS Chhavi Ranjan.
In the case related to several land scams along with army land in Ranchi, the ED had raided 22 locations of revenue employees and land mafia of different zones, including former DC Chhavi Ranjan of Ranchi, Manoj Kumar, CO of Bargain zone. During the raid, the ED has got land deeds, registry related documents and many government papers on a large scale. On the basis of fake land documents from Kolkata, the ED has found evidence of irregularities in the sale and purchase of land worth billions in Ranchi and money laundering. Seven people have been arrested by the ED after the raid, now the same seven are being interrogated on remand.
