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ED recovers huge cash from domestic help of Jharkhand minister Alamgir Alam's personal secretary

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | May 06, 2024, at 04:35 pm

Ranchi/IBNS: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday recovered a huge amount of cash from the domestic help of Sanjiv Lal, who is the personal secretary to Jharkhand Rural Development Minister Alamgir Alam in Ranchi, media reports said.

As shown in the videos, a huge pile of "unaccounted cash" was recovered from the premise allegedly linked to the househelp of Lal, the PS to Alam, who is a Congress MLA from Pakur, in connection with the Virendra Ram case.

#WATCH | Jharkhand: Huge amount of cash recovered from household help of Sanjiv Lal - PS to Jharkhand Rural Development minister Alamgir Alam - in ED raids at multiple locations in Ranchi in Virendra Ram case.

ED arrested Virendra K. Ram, the chief engineer at the Jharkhand… pic.twitter.com/1yoBFRvaLa
— ANI (@ANI) May 6, 2024

The counting of cash is still ongoing. As per the latest report, more than Rs. 20 crore has been counted.

The raids took place in connection with an ongoing probe into the alleged irregularities in the implementation of certain schemes in the Rural Development Department.

#WATCH | Jharkhand: Counting machine being brought to the residence of household help of Sanjiv Lal - PS to Jharkhand Rural Development minister Alamgir Alam in Ranchi where a large amount of cash has been recovered so far. More than Rs 20 crores has been counted so far. Counting… pic.twitter.com/Sg5uWBnBHe
— ANI (@ANI) May 6, 2024

The ED conducted raids at multiple locations in the state capital in connection with the probe into a money laundering case linked to arrested former chief engineer of the Rural Development Department, Virendra Kumar Ram.

Ram was arrested by the ED on February 21, 2023 after the probe agency conducted multiple raids in Ranchi, Jamshedpur and a few other places.

#ED #EnforcementDirectorate #JharkhandMinister #DomesticHelp #VeerendraKumarRam #AlamgirAlam #SanjivLal #Jharkhand #Ranchi

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