Ranchi. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has raided more than 20 locations of Jharkhand IAS officer Pooja Singhal and her husband Abhishek Jha among many others in connection with the mining lease allocation and disproportionate investments. From Friday morning, different teams of ED conducted raids at about half a dozen places in Ranchi. Apart from this, raids are also being conducted in NCR, Jaipur, Faridabad, Bangalore, Muzaffarpur in Bihar, Khunti in Jharkhand and Kolkata. Although officially no information has been given about these raids yet. IAS Pooja Singhal is posted as Mines Secretary in Jharkhand. He is responsible for many other departments. Her husband Abhishek Jha runs a super specialty hospital named Pulse in Ranchi. Apart from this, he has many other businesses.
According to ED sources, there has been a huge amount of transaction by the IAS and her husband in the last few years. Dozens of documents related to them and their validity are being checked. It is being told that the ED team is also scrutinizing the documents related to the allocation of mines in Jharkhand. Recently, former Chief Minister Raghuvar Das had released several documents alleging irregularities in the allocation of mines.
Raids are being conducted in Ranchi from 6 am in the new building of Hari Om Tower, Panchvati Residency and other places along with the IAS official residence in Ranchi. Apart from ED’s Joint Director Kapil Raj, many big officers are camping in Ranchi. The raids are likely to continue till late.
—AnyTV News
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