ED raids on nine places in Jharkhand in sand scam of Bihar continue for the second day

Ranchi (IANS) | ED’s raids at nine locations in Jharkhand in connection with Bihar’s sand scam continued for the second day on Tuesday. During this, the ED has received documents related to the investment of crores of rupees in real estate, including about one and a half crore rupees. Different teams of ED from Patna started simultaneous raids in Dhanbad and Hazaribagh from Monday morning itself. Those who have come under the scanner of ED include Sanjay Singh, brother of an IPS officer of Manipur cadre and former secretary of Jharkhand State Cricket Association, Punj Singh, director of Broadsion Commodity Pvt Ltd and Mor Mukut Pvt Ltd in Dhanbad, partner of the company Surendra Jindal, Jagannarayan Singh and Mithilesh Singh, builder Ritesh Kumar Sharma.

Apart from their bases in Jharkhand, raids are going on at a total of 24 places in Kolkata including Patna, Arrah, Dehri, Aurangabad.

Wherever ED raids are going on, all of them are related to Broadson Commodities Pvt Ltd. This is the same company which had taken up sand lifting work in five districts of Bihar (Patna, Bhojpur, Rohtas, Chhapra, Aurangabad). This company was run by Dr. Ashok Kumar, Jagannarayan Singh, Mithilesh Kumar Singh, Ashok Jindal and Punj Kumar Singh. All of them were partners of the company.

It is being told that illegal sand worth more than 1000 crores has been mined in Bihar and sold in the open market.

–IANS