The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday conducted raids in 15 locations in Jharkhand and Bihar in connection with the land scam in Bokaro's Tetulia Mauja. The raids included Ranchi based Rajbir Construction, people involved in the sale and purchase of land, and former Circle officer of Chas.
As per ED sources Rajbir Construction has invested money in land purchase and sale. Documents related to fraudulent purchase of land have been seized during the raids. Apart from this, the investigation of the documents found related to the investment of the money received in the sale and purchase is ongoing.
The central probe agency also conducted raids at locations of former Chas Circle officer Diwakar Dwivedi in Dhanbad and Nirmal Toppo in Hazaribagh. Nirmal Toppo has been dismissed on the charge of wrong settlement of the same land in Bokaro.
ED raided the locations of Chas former Circle officer Diwakar Dwivedi for the second time. Earlier, ED had raided his locations in connection with the land scam in Kanke zone. After investigating the Kanke land scam, ED has filed a chargesheet against Diwakar Dwivedi. Dwivedi is currently posted as District Transport Officer in Dhanbad district.
Umayush Multicom Company had bought 74.38 acres of land for Rs 10.30 crore. This company with a share capital of Rs 1 lakh had bought this land in Bokaro for Rs 10.30 crore just a month or two after its formation.
The land was purchased through four sale deeds on 10, 11 and 12 February 2021. During the investigation conducted by ED, it has been learned that Rajbir Construction had provided funds to Umayush Multicom to buy the land.
ED also started raiding the locations of Izhar Hussain and Akhtar Hussain, who sold land in Bokaro, since morning. Izhar Hussain and Akhtar Hussain sold 74.38 acres of land to Umayush Multicom for just Rs 10.30 crore. The price of this land as per circle rate is Rs 23.13 crore. Whereas the market value of the land is many times more than this.
Izhar Hussain and Akhtar Hussain had claimed the land in Bokaro, in whose purchase and sale ED is taking action, on the basis that their ancestors had bought it in 1933 in an auction conducted by Purulia district administration. In accordance with this claim, the then zonal officer Nirmal Toppo had settled the land. After investigation, the government dismissed Nirmal Toppo on the charge of settling government land in an illegal manner.