The suspension of IAS Pooja Singhal will be withdrawn soon (suspension revoked). For this, the Personnel Department has forwarded the file. The committee headed by the Chief Secretary is considering it. The suspension can be withdrawn in the light of the committee's recommendation. According to the information, legal experts have been consulted to end the suspension of Pooja Singhal.

After getting an opinion on legal points, her suspension will end, after which she can be given big responsibility. Singhal has been released from jail on the 7th of this month under the BNS Act. However, she is still an accused in the money laundering case. But according to the legal provisions, her suspension can be ended while she is out of jail.

Singhal, accused in the MGNREGA scam, was arrested by the ED on May 11. Earlier on May 5, 2022, the ED raided 25 locations of Pooja Singhal. In this raid, the ED got important information about unaccounted money and investments in other places. During the raid by the central agency, Rs 19.31 crore cash was recovered from the residence and office of Pooja Singhal's CA Suman Singh.

Suspended IAS officer Pooja Singhal who has been in judicial custody for last 28 months in an alleged money laundering case, was granted bail by a Jharkhand court on Saturday.

The bail was granted to Singhal by a special Ranchi PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) court, where her plea was heard under provisions of a law regarding prolonged judicial custody.

The court had earlier sought detailed information from the Superintendent of Birsa Munda Central Jail regarding the exact duration of Singhal's incarceration and her judicial custody status.

Following this, the jail superintendent submitted a formal report to the court.

Pooja who was arrested by ED on May 11, 2022 had spent nearly two-and-a-half years in jail. Her counsel argued for her release under the revised legal framework, which permits bail for accused whose judicial custody equals or exceeds one-third of the maximum sentence in the case they face.

A 2000 batch IAS officer, Singhal, was arrested by the federal probe agency for alleged embezzlement of crores of MGNREGA funds in Jharkhand. The Enforcement Directorate had also conducted raids on several properties linked to Singhal in connection with the money laundering case.

The ED said it had seized over Rs 36 crore in cash linked to illegal mining operations during two separate investigations conducted by the agency. Apart from Singhal and her businessman husband, a chartered accountant associated with the couple, along with several others, were raided by the ED as part of the money laundering probe. Singhal was suspended by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) following her arrest. In April this year, the Supreme Court rejected Singhal's bail plea, stating that it would not interfere with the Jharkhand High Court order.