Ranchi, Rana Pratap: A demand has been made to investigate the case of recovery of more than Rs 351 crore in cash from various locations of Congress Rajya Sabha MP Dheeraj Sahu by CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED). A public interest litigation has been filed in the Jharkhand High Court regarding this matter. A petition has been filed on behalf of applicant Daniel Danish, resident of Jamshedpur, demanding investigation of the entire episode by CBI and ED. In the petition, a request has been made to give instructions to the Chief Election Commissioner to take suo motu cognizance of the membership of Dheeraj Sahu.
Request to Chief Election Commissioner to take suo motu cognizance
Daniel Danish of Jamshedpur has said in the petition filed in the High Court that the recovery of cash worth billions from the premises of Rajya Sabha MP Dheeraj Sahu is a serious matter and keeping so much cash is like an economic crime. The applicant has made the Central Government, Chairman of CBDT, Director General of Income Tax (Research), Director of Enforcement Directorate, CBI Director and Chief Election Commissioner as defendants in the case. In the petition, a request has been made to give instructions to the Chief Election Commissioner to take suo motu cognizance of the membership of Dheeraj Sahu.
The applicant made this request
The applicant has also said that the illegal money of Mahadev App scam has been kept in the possession of Dheeraj Sahu in Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, so that it can be spent in the upcoming parliamentary and state assembly elections of 2024. A request has also been made to direct the Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to submit a report on the action taken in the matter.