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The Enforcement Directorate Wednesday conducted raids at locations linked to Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s press advisor Abhishek Prasad and Sahibganj deputy commissioner Ram Niwas Yadav as well as an architect in connection with an alleged illegal mining case in Sahibganj.
The raids come a day after Soren did not pay heed to the seventh summon issued to him by the ED to join questioning in an ongoing investigation. While the ED had said this was the last opportunity for Soren to join questioning, he had, in a letter on January 2, said he would challenge the entire investigation in a court of law.
Prasad, Soren’s press advisor, had earlier been called for questioning in the Sahibganj case over allegations that he owned mines there. Speaking to The Indian Express earlier, Prasad had said: “Yes, I do own mines, but the consent to operate was given to me during (former CM) Raghubar Das’s time.”
In August last year, the ED had written to the Jharkhand police seeking details of FIRs or chargesheet filed against certain people, including Prasad, whose name figured in anonymous letters sent to the agency.
Deputy Commissioner Yadav’s name has also cropped up in an ED prosecution complaint earlier.
The ED had claimed that they had “lawfully intercepted” telephonic conversations of Soren’s aide Pankaj Mishra, who is in jail in the Sahibganj case, and found that he was misusing his power over the commissioner of Dumka zone. The ED had said that DC Yadav’s report on the matter was not satisfactory.
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