Ranchi, June 12: In Ranchi, a case of selling the land occupied by the Army by forged documents had come to the fore. After which ED raided 22 locations of 18 people including former DC Chhavi Ranjan of Ranchi.
This raid was done on 13 April. Today, the charge sheet was filed by the
Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed a chargesheet in the Ranchi army land scam in the Ranchi PMLA special court, the names of 10 other people including IAS Chhavi Ranjan are included in the chargesheet.
Others whose name are included in the chargesheet include Kolkata-based businessmen Amit Agarwal, Dilip Ghosh, Badgai CI Bhanu Pratap Prasad, land broker Pradeep Bagchi, Afsar Ali, Imtiaz Khan, Fayaz Khan, Talha Khan and Mohammed Saddam’s .
Ranchi’s former DC Chhavi Ranjan, accused in the Army land scam case, is accused of getting the land frozen on the basis of fake documents.
Chhavi Ranjan was arrested on May 4 in the Army land scam case. On April 13, the ED raided 22 locations of 18 people, including Chhavi Ranjan. After this, on April 14, seven accused including fake raiyat Pradeep Bagchi, revenue sub-inspector of Badagain circle Bhanu Pratap Prasad were arrested.
Kolkata-based businessman Amit Agarwal and Jagatbandhu Tea Estate owner Dilip Ghosh, were arrested late on June 7.
All the accused have been sent to Hotwar Jail today after completion of remand period.
The forgery in the purchase and sale of 4.55 acres of land occupied by the army was first revealed in the commissioner’s inquiry report. It was revealed in the report that a person named Pradeep Bagchi had sold the said land to Dilip Kumar Ghosh, director of Jagat Bandhu Tea Estate Pvt Ltd, posing as a fake tenant. The two different papers related to the holding number that Pradeep Bagchi had attached in the registry for the purchase and sale of land were found to be fake during the investigation.
Businessman Amit Agarwal and Jagatbandhu Tea Estate owner Dilip Ghosh, arrested in connection with Army land scam in Ranchi, were today sent to jail. Both were produced in the court after being arrested by the ED. Where the Special Court handed over both the accused to the ED for 72 hours for questioning. Today the remand period of both is over. The ED presented both of them in the ED’s special court.