After the arrest of IAS officer Chahvi Ranjan in connection with alleged land deals and subsequent suspension from director of Social Welfare department, Ranchi’s real estate businessman Vishnu Kumar Agarwal is on radar of Enforcement Directorate (ED).
Agarwal was received illegal favour from Ranjan the former DC of Ranchi has been asked to appear before the ED office in Hinoo on Monday morning. The ED has come to know that real estate businessman Vishnu Kumar Agarwal planned and got Chhavi Ranjan’s Goa tour done. He arranged for their accommodation and food at Taj Fort Aguada in Goa. For this, Vishnu Kumar Aggarwal paid in cash through his employee to a travel agent in Delhi. This has been revealed by the ED from the data of the seized mobile of Vishnu Kumar Aggarwal, whose forensic analysis has revealed these facts.
On the verbal orders of the then DC Chhavi Ranjan of Ranchi, the mutation of one acre of disputed land on Cheshire Home Road was done by Manoj Kumar, the then Zonal Officer of Bargain, in the name of Vishnu Agarwal and his wife Anushree Agarwal.
Prior to this, Agarwal was also summoned on November last year by ED. The ED seized Vishnu Aggarwal’s mobile during a raid on his hideout on November 4, 2022, from whose data the ED got a lot of information, including the details of Chhavi Ranjan’s Goa tour.
In the investigation of ED, it was found that there was a deep connection between Vishnu Aggarwal and Chhavi Ranjan. Chhavi Ranjan had given Vishnu Aggarwal illegal possession of the non-purchaseable land at Pugadu in Namkum Mauza. Through the state government, there was an order to investigate the matter of this land as well.
Meanwhile, ED has made another disclosure about Chhavi Ranjan and said that for Badgai Mauza Ranjan had received Rs 1 crore in bribe for a piece of land. The previously arrested accused had paid them through Prem Prakash. The land for which Rs 1 crore was paid to Chhavi Ranjan was restricted. The said amount was paid to Chhavi Ranjan in exchange for his exclusion from the banned list.
It’s noteworthy that on November 4, ED had raided a complete of 12 places of businessman Vishnu Agarwal, Kolkata businessman Amit Agarwal and others in unlawful sale of military land. In the course of the raid, the ED bought paperwork associated to the sale and buy of military land.
On this paperwork have been additionally discovered through which a military land was transferred by Prem Prakash to Vishnu Agarwal, passing by many arms in a improper means. Prem Prakash is at the moment in jail. He was arrested after two AK-47s have been discovered from Prem Prakash’s hideouts in the course of the raid.
Earlier, Jharkhand IAS officer Chhavi Ranjan, arrested in connection with alleged illegal land deals, was suspended by the Jharkhand government on Saturday, an official said. The Enforcement Directorate had produced him before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court on Saturday, which had remanded him to six days of ED custody.
"Chhavi Ranjan, Director, Social Welfare, Jharkhand is suspended with immediate effect after his arrest by Enforcement Directorate, regional office under section 19 of the PMLA Act, 2002," a notification issued by the state government said.