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PATNA: Two district delivery officials (DTOs) of Bihar at the moment are dealing with motion from the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which registered court cases towards them underneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act, 2002.
The officials—Ajay Kumar Thakur and Rajnish Lal—had been posted in Jehanabad and Muzaffarpur, respectively when searches had been performed at their residential premises via Vigilance Investigation Bureau (VIB).
Throughout the analysis operation, the VIB sleuths had detected a money deposit of Rs.90 lakh and investments value Rs.70 lakh in insurance coverage insurance policies within the identify of Thakur and his shut kinfolk in November ultimate 12 months. Paperwork associated with the acquire of land in Muzaffarpur, Patna in Bihar and in Ranchi and Jamshedpur in Jharkhand had been seized via the individuals of the raiding crew from Thakur’s residential premises.
In a similar way, a disproportionate belongings case used to be lodged on the VIB police station towards Rajnish Lal in June 2021 when he used to be posted as DTO of Muzaffarpur. Throughout a seek of his flat in Patna’s Kankarbagh, the VIB crew had recovered Rs.51 lakh money and jewelry value Rs.60 lakh. As well as, jewelry value Rs.20 lakh used to be detected within the locker of the previous Muzaffarpur DTO.
Each the officials had been put underneath suspension after instances of disproportionate belongings had been registered on the VIB police station. A senior respectable of the ED stated, “The method of attachment of belongings will get started quickly. Now we have already registered instances towards the 2 officials underneath PMLA at the advice of the VIB.”
