Ranchi: IAS Manish Ranjan will not appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday. He informed about this by sending a letter to the ED office. Also demanded from the agency to give the next date. ED officials will interrogate Manish Ranjan in the tender commissioneering case.
In fact, after the arrest of Jharkhand Rural Development Minister Alamgir Alam, his PS Sanjeev Lal and personal assistant Jahangir Alam in the tender commission embezzlement case, the ED had issued summons against former secretary of the department Manish Ranjan on May 22.
In the summons issued, ED had called Manish Ranjan for questioning on May 24 at the ED regional office in Ranchi at 11 am. ED had also asked Manish Ranjan to bring along documents related to his and his family members’ income and property. ED has so far arrested department ministers Alamgir Alam, Sanjeev Lal, Jahangir Alam, Chief Engineer Birendra Ram, CA Mukesh Mittal and others in the tender commission embezzlement case.
ED had arrested Alamgir Alam after interrogating him for two consecutive days. Currently he is in ED custody. ED is interrogating him. After the arrest of many people associated with the Rural Development Department, ED has got a lot of evidence, due to which new revelations are continuously being made.
It has been revealed that the accounts of commission embezzlement were allegedly kept in an Excel sheet, in which Manish Ranjan’s name was also there. On the basis of that, Manish Ranjan has been called for questioning.
ED had revealed in the court that everyone from officers to ministers used to take commission in the tenders of the Rural Development Department. In the raid at the house of Alamgir Alam’s PS Sanjeev Lal and his personal assistant Jahangir Alam, ED had found stacks of notes, after which both were arrested. After this, Minister Alamgir Alam was interrogated and the ED also arrested him.