Jharkhand Rural Growth Minister Alamgir Alam has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a cash laundering case linked to the seizure of over Rs 35 crore in money from a flat linked to his private secretary and the latter’s home assist. 

Mr Alam was questioned for over 9 hours on the Enforcement Directorate workplace in Ranchi on Tuesday and he was referred to as once more on Wednesday. He was interrogated for six hours and was arrested for not cooperating with the investigation, ED sources mentioned. 

The company had raided a 2BHK flat in Ranchi occupied by Jehangir Alam, a home assist of the minister’s Private Secretary Sanjiv Lal, final week and recovered Rs 35.23 crore from there and an extra over Rs 1.5 crore from different premises. A complete of Rs 37 crore was seized. 

Mr Lal and Jehangir Alam had been arrested below the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA) the following day and are at the moment in ED’s custody. 

The case in opposition to Mr Alam and his aide is expounded to the alleged Jharkhand tender rip-off, below which commissions had been collected after which distributed below Mr Lal’s supervision. 

The 70-year-old Congress chief was first elected to the Jharkhand Meeting in 2000 and has additionally served as its Speaker. His arrest comes months after Jharkhand chief minister and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha chief Hemant Soren was taken into custody by the ED within the land rip-off case. Mr Soren had resigned because the chief minister simply earlier than he was formally arrested.