Ranchi. In the Jharkhand tender commission scam, the state government’s Rural Development Minister Alamgir Alam was sent to Birsa Munda Central Jail in Hotwar, Ranchi after being produced in the PMLA court on Thursday. The ED arrested him on the evening of May 15. Despite being sent to jail, Alamgir Alam continues to hold the post of minister. Neither has he resigned, nor has the Chief Minister removed him from his post. After the arrest, the agency took him on remand and interrogated him for a total of 14 days. During this, he was also confronted with IAS Manish Ranjan, who was the Secretary in the Rural Development Department, PS Sanjeev Kumar Lal, domestic help Jahangir Alam and many questions were asked about the commission recovery.
The agency has accused Alamgir Alam of not answering many questions during interrogation. The agency has told the court that many new facts related to the Tender Commission Scams have come to light during the interrogation of Alamgir Alam. An organized gang of engineers, officers and ministers was active in the tender commission scam. As a sample, the ED had also submitted a paper related to the details of 25 tenders worth Rs 92 crore passed in January in the court, in which it is clearly written that Minister Alamgir Alam had taken Rs 1.23 crore as commission in all the said 25 tenders.
Let us tell you that ED raided the places of Minister Alamgir Alam’s PS Sanjeev Lal and domestic help Jahangir Alam and many others on 6-7 May and during this time more than 37 crores were recovered. After the arrest of Sanjeev Lal and Jahangir, ED sent summons to Alamgir Alam and he was questioned for a total of about 14 hours on 14-15 May. Meanwhile, in the same case, ED also questioned former Secretary of Jharkhand’s Rural Development Department and Senior IAS Manish Ranjan on 27 May. He has been summoned for questioning for the second time on 3 June. Expanding the scope of investigation, ED also searched the places of some people in Ranchi on Wednesday.
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