THE JHARKHAND STORY DESK
Ranchi, June 21: The ED has seized one crore rupees in cash and one hundred rounds of live ammunition from the premises of land businessman Kamlesh. In addition, the ED has also recovered land-related documents of several officials from Kamlesh Kumar’s premises.
Notably, in the land scam case, the ED team raided the residence of land businessman Kamlesh Kumar in Aster Green, located at Chandni Chowk on Kanke Road.
This raid is connected to the case involving Shekhar Kushwaha, who was arrested in the land scam case. On June 12, the ED had arrested Shekhar Kushwaha, a resident of Gadi Gaon, in the Bargai land scam.
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Previously, in this case, a total of 21 people including Hemant Soren, former Deputy Commissioner of Ranchi, Chhavi Ranjan, JMM leader Antu Tirkey have been arrested.
Shekhar Kushwaha was the 22nd accused arrested in the land scam. During the investigation of the case of the purchase and sale of land with the help of fake documents, ED found that Shekhar is involved in the purchase and sale of 4.83 acres of land of Gadi Mauja of Bargain region.
After the arrest and interrogation of Tapas Ghosh from Kolkata Registry Office, Sanjeet Kumar, and Hazaribagh’s Deed Writer Irshad Akhtar by ED, information related to the purchase and sale of this land was obtained.
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