Patna. The difficulties of JDU MLC Radha Charan Sah and his son Kanhaiya are increasing. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has sent notices to both father and son. The ED has asked both of them to appear in the office of the Enforcement Directorate in Patna within 15 days. This notice has been sent to both of them after their involvement in illegal business of sand came to the fore. Recently, ED has raided many places of Radha Charan Sah alias Seth. Before the ED’s raid, the Income Tax Department team had raided the house in the tax evasion case. In February, many important revelations were made in the Income Tax Department’s three-day raid at several locations of JDU’s Legislative Councilor Radha Charan Sah alias Seth. The Income Tax team had conducted income tax raids at more than 22 locations. After which the Income Tax Department team lodged an FIR at Bihta police station.
accused of running sand syndicate
It is said that Radhacharan Sah along with his associates runs sand syndicate. Contracts for sand ghats are taken in the name of others, but from investing money to managing these ghats, they themselves do the work. The Income Tax Department team has also found evidence of illegal mining and black money from sand ghats. Not only this, in the investigation of the Income Tax Department, it was revealed that Radhacharan Sah used to invest Balu’s earnings in the hotel. From Arrah’s Regal Hotel Regal Resort to Manali’s Mystic Ground Resort and Haridwar’s Hotel and Resort, he used to invest his black earned money.
The raid took place on June 6
In the case of illegal sand mining, on June 6, the ED team raided 27 places simultaneously in Patna, Dhanbad, Hazaribagh and Kolkata. The raids were conducted at the residence of directors, chartered accountants and other associates of M/s Broadson Commodities Pvt Ltd and M/s Aditya Multicom Pvt Ltd. According to the ED, during the raid on June 6 in connection with the illegal mining case, 1.5 crore cash, property documents worth 11 crore have been seized. Along with this, Rs 6 crore deposited in the bank and 60 bank accounts have also been frozen.
Recovered papers and other material also seized
Papers and other material recovered during the raid were also seized. It was revealed from the documents that many trusts were also maintained through which many hospitals and schools were operated. Radhacharan and his associates also do the business of giving loans to people in cash. Especially they used to give loans to traders in this way. In return, they used to charge hefty interest. Many such documents and property papers have been found from them, which are in the name of someone else. This fact came to the fore after investigation.
ED is probing money laundering
Actually, ED is probing money laundering in various cases registered by Bihar Police regarding illegal sand mining. On the complaint of the Mining Department, a case has been registered against M/s Broadson Commodities Pvt Ltd and M/s Aditya Multicom Pvt Ltd and their directors for illegal sand mining and its sale without using departmental pre-paid transport e-Parivahan.
Legislative councilor Radhacharan Sah has been the director of Bodson
Due to illegal mining, the Bihar government has lost revenue of about Rs 250 crore. Baban Singh, Punj Singh, Mithilesh Singh, Surendra Jindal, Ashok Kumar, MLC Radhacharan Sah and Subhash Yadav associated with Broadson and Aditya Multicom have been directors of Broadson, while Jagannarayan Singh and Satish Kumar Singh are directors of Aditya Multicom. Broadson and Aditya Multicom do sand mining work in different districts of Bihar.