VIJAY DEO JHA
Ranchi, May 24: The money laundering investigation against suspended IAS officer Pooja Singhal seems to be inching close to relatives and associates of the bureaucrats and people considered close to the present government.
The Enforcement Directorate searched office premises of the construction company NKCPL owned by Nishit Keshri. Well placed sources in the government said that they knew Nishit Keshri as brother-in-law of senior IAS Rajiv Arun Ekka who is principle secretary to the Chief Minister Hemant Soren. His office at OAK Forest apartment on Pandug road in Ranchi is being searched by the agency. Sources said that till one and half decade back he used to run a garment shop named as Poonam Dresses which was situated on Main Road.
Similarly, Vishal Choudhary has also a very close connection with two top bureaucrats of Jharkhand. The ED carried search on his office and residence at Ashok Nagar in Ranchi. He runs Frontier Global Services and Vinayaka Group. Will placed sources said during Covid 19 Vishal Choudhary was given a contract for the supply of testing kits worth over crores. He is also said to be associated with skill development programmes of the state government.
It is alleged that both of them have invested un accounted money of several persons in their business.
