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CBI raids former Union Minister Jayanthi Natarajan's premises in Chennai

CBI raids former Union Minister Jayanthi Natarajan's premises in Chennai

| @indiablooms | 09 Sep 2017, 06:49 pm
New Delhi, Sept 9 (IBNS): The CBI on Saturday raided the premise of former Union Minister Jayanthi Natarajan in Chennai, media reports said.

The raids was reportedly conducted at the residence of the ex-Union Minister for alleged clearance given during her tenure for diversion of forest land for mining in alleged violation of laws.

The case is related to a lease of land in Saranda forest of Jharkhand.

"Jayanthi Natarajan, the then minister of state for environment and forests accorded the approval for diversion of 55.79 hectares of forest land for non-forestry use to ECL, though the same had been rejected by the earlier minister of state ... without any change in the circumstances after rejection," the CBI FIR alleged as quoted by The Time of India in its report.

The CBI sources told the news paper that the former director of Electosteel, Umang Kejriwal, has also been named in its FIR.

Natarajan had served as the Union environment minister during the Congress-led UPA regime.

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