The State Police on Tuesday conducted raids on several places in the State Capital in connection to Hawala business.
Raids were going on at several locations simultaneously. According to the information provided by Kotwali Deputy Superintendent of Police (Dy SP), Vikas raids were conducted at Gopal Complex of Kotwali police station area of Ranchi and Upper Bazar under similar police station. Earlier, after raiding Shri Siddhi clothes located in Upper Bazar, the information related to Hawala business was taken from the employees here.
After this, the Police team raided Pratik Jain's office in the second floor of HP Chamber building near Gopal Complex. Several documents related to the transaction of hefty amounts are being received from the office, sources said.
Even two note counting machines have been recovered from inside the office. Kotwali police station of Ranchi is investigating this.
On January 20, a team of Ranchi Police raided the premises of two big businessmen of Upper Bazaar. However, nothing was recovered in the raid. Police had called the raid as verification. At the same time, the Police team had reached for verification on the information of transactions worth crores of rupees.
Meanwhile, in Dhanbad also the transactions worth lakhs of rupees are taking place through Hawala business, said sources. Police received information in this regard and also started investigation.
On Tuesday, a police team led by Bank More Police Station, In-Charge, Randhir Singh went to large business establishments in the area to conduct raids and investigations. However, information related to the Hawala business was not made public by the police investigating team.