Jharkhand News: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Kolkata-based businessman Amit Agarwal and Jagatbandhu Tea Estate director Dilip Ghosh on Wednesday night in connection with the purchase and sale of army-occupied land by forging documents. Both were arrested after questioning at ED’s regional office in Ranchi. Amit Agarwal and Dilip Ghosh will be produced in the court of special PMLA judge on Thursday. Along with this, a request will be made to take him on remand for further enquiry. In this case, apart from former Deputy Commissioner of Ranchi Chhavi Ranjan, employee Bhanu Pratap, many land businessmen have already been arrested.
ED arrested after questioning
The ED had called Amit Agarwal and Dilip Ghosh for questioning during the investigation into the purchase and sale of land occupied by the army. In the light of this summon, both appeared in the ED’s regional office on Wednesday. He was arrested after questioning. The land occupied by the army has been bought by Amit Agarwal’s company Jagat Bandhu Tea Estate. Amit Agarwal was also arrested by the ED in the Rajeev cash case. He is out on bail in this cash scam case.
The matter of sale and purchase of land occupied by the army
The ED, during the investigation in the case of land occupied by the army, found that Amit Agarwal and others, for the purchase and sale of 4.55 acres of land of MS plot no. conspired with. Chhavi Ranjan was paid one crore rupees for this deal. Pradeep Bagchi’s father was made the owner of the land by forgery in the original document related to this land in the Kolkata-based registry office under a well-planned conspiracy. After this, this land was sold to Jagat Bandhu Tea Estate, a company associated with Amit Agarwal, for only seven crore rupees. Investigation found that instead of Rs 7 crore mentioned in the sale deed, only Rs 25 lakh was given to Pradeep Bagchi. The remaining Rs 6.75 crore was not paid at all. The cost of the land at the government rate has been estimated at Rs 20 crore. ED has already arrested Pradeep Bagchi.
ED had got the forensic examination of the document done
During the investigation of the case, the ED seized the documents related to the land occupied by the army and sent them for forensic examination as per the order of the court. The tampering of the document has been confirmed in the forensic investigation. For the investigation of the land occupied by the army, the ED had made the basis of the FIR lodged by the Municipal Corporation on the allegation of taking the holding number on the basis of fake documents. The corporation had based the facts found in the investigation report of the then Divisional Commissioner Nitin Madan Kulkarni in this matter. The Divisional Commissioner had mentioned in his investigation report that Pradeep Bagchi had taken the holding number from the Municipal Corporation with the help of fake documents. The funniest thing about this episode is that the Divisional Commissioner started the investigation in the light of a complaint made by Pradeep Bagchi. Bagchi had alleged that some people were buying and selling land occupied by the army with the help of fake documents. Pradeep Bagchi was also found involved in forgery in the investigation of the Divisional Commissioner.
This is how the arrest happened
On Wednesday, the ED raided two locations of Amit Agarwal in Kolkata. In this sequence, it was found that he is in Bagdogra. Idi asked him to be present in Ranchi, so he first said: I have missed my flight. On being warned, he reached Ranchi by another flight.
So far she has been arrested in this case
– Chhavi Ranjan
– Abid Khan
– Imtiaz Ahmed
– Pradeep Bagchi
– Saddam Hussein
– Talha Khan
– Bhanu Pratap
– Fayaz Khan