Property worth Rs 236 crore has been attached, and the ED has revealed land ownership fraud

 Property worth Rs 236 crore has been attached, and the ED has revealed land ownership fraud

In connection with the Ranchi land fraud case, Jharkhand News Central investigation agency ED has temporarily seized three immovable properties belonging to Vishnu Agarwal, comprising one acre of property on Cheshire Home Road, Pugadu, and Sirmtoli. All three lands together cost Rs 161.64 crore. In the land fraud case, 14 suspects have been detained thus far.

News from Jharkhand In connection with the Ranchi land fraud case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has temporarily attached three lands worth Rs 161.64 crore (commercial value) that are located at Cheshire Home Road, Pugru, and Siram in Ranchi. These property lots have been fraudulently modified with the help of property Revenue Department employees.

illegally holding land

On the basis of many FIRs filed by the Jharkhand Police and the West Bengal Police under various IPC sections against Pradeep Bagchi, Vishnu Kumar Agarwal, Bhanu Pratap Prasad, and others, the ED has opened an investigation into three instances involving land scams.

The ED's probe has shown that the mafia is operating a significant fraud in Jharkhand to change the ownership of the property unlawfully. These criminal groups used to fabricate old documents in Ranchi and Kolkata.

Government representatives that support the land mafia

Additionally, it has come to light that dishonest government employees fabricated property ownership documents for the advantage of the aforementioned land mafia. These lands are then sold to other people on the basis of falsified land documents.

In this case, the ED previously conducted 41 searches and 5 surveys and seized various evidence, including forged land documents, forged land revenue department seals, documentation of the distribution of wrongdoing proceeds among them, photographs of forgery, and evidence of bribery of government officials.

Total attachment in cases of land fraud might reach 236 crores

The ED had already placed three estates valued crores of rupees under provisional attachment. The cumulative attachments in land scam cases have now surpassed Rs 236 crore with the recent attachment of Rs 74.39 crore (commercial value) in another property scam case.

Pradeep Bagchi, Afsar Ali, Saddam Hussain, Imtiaz Ahmed, Talha Khan, Fayaz Khan, Bhanu Pratap Prasad, Chhavi Ranjan, IAS (former DC Ranchi), Dilip Kumar Ghosh, Amit Kumar Agarwal, and Vishnu Kumar Agarwal are among the 14 individuals who have been charged thus far.

Prem Prakash, Bharat Prasad, and Rajesh Rai have all been detained and are being held in judicial custody. The complaint from the prosecution was submitted earlier on March 12. The ED has now submitted a new prosecution complaint in the land fraud case.