THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Ranchi: The Jharkhand High Court today sought a sealed report regarding the illegal activities of two high-profile money laundering case accused- Prem Prakash and Amit Agarwal lodged in the Birsa Munda Central Jail.
Hearing a PIL filed by Shiv Shankar Sharma for a probe into the land scam, a bench headed by Chief Justice Sanjaya Kumar Mishra directed the ED to submit a sealed report in this case.
When the court took up the case for hearing, Sharma’s counsel Rajiv Kumar referred to various newspaper reports saying how the scamsters lodged in the jail were hatching a conspiracy to harm the ED officers and dilute the cases filed against them.
Thereafter, the court asked ED counsel Amit Das to submit a report in this regard in a sealed cover for further action.
Notably, the ED raided the jail premises recently after a report that a conspiracy was being hatched to implicate officials of the ED in false cases.
The ED, thereafter, also summoned three jail officials, including Superintendent Hamid Akhtar and Jailor Md Nashim. The jail head clerk, Md Danish, is undergoing questioning following the ED summons today. The mobile phone of Danish was allegedly used to influence the ED witnesses.
During the raid, information was received that a fresh conspiracy to implicate an ED officer was hatched in a serious type of charge from the jail itself after the Dhurva police station booked an ED officer in an ST-SC case,
According to sources, a woman was also persuaded to file a case against ED officials, but the agency got the information at the right time. Many important facts and evidence have been collected by the ED in this case. Prem Prakash, Amit Agarwal, and many other prisoners involved in illegal mining and land scams had allegedly a role in this conspiracy.
The central probe agency is investigating money laundering worth crores of rupees in Jharkhand like land scams, illegal trade of sand, alleged scam in liquor tender and illegal mining.