VIJAY DEO JHA
The suspended IAS Pooja Singhal on Monday filed her petition before a special PMLA court of Prabhat Kumar Sharma in Ranchi. In the bail petition, she has challenged her detention as illegal.
She requested the court to grant bail on the health and other grounds. It was reliably learnt that she has prayed before the court that she is not keeping good health hence she needs better treatment. Sources in the Enforcement Directorate said that they would file a counter reply after going through grounds on which bail has been sought.
She filed the bail petition through her lawyer Vishwajeet Mukherjee. The Enforcement Directorate arrested her on May 11 on the charge of money laundering following her involvement in the MNREGA scheme scam in Khunti district.
Her chartered accountant Suman Kumar Singh who is the co-accused was arrested on May 7, a day after the nationwide raids against Pooja Singhal and others. Both are lodged at the Birsa Munda Central Jail in Ranchi. Under the PMLA Act, the ED is bound to file the charge sheet against them by July 7.
