The Enforcement Directorate has arrested one Mohammad Saddam, who has allegedly made fake sale deeds in the land grabbing and money laundering case related to former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren.
This is the third arrest by ED in a money laundering case related to land grabbing. Mohammad Saddam is accused of falsifying the documents of the land allegedly occupied by Hemant Soren.
It is alleged that the documents of the land occupied by Hemant Soren were tampered with by Mohammad Saddam.
After his arrest, he was produced in the special court under PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) under tight security.
During this, ED's counsel requested the court to allow the accused to be interrogated for 7 days; however, the court gave four days’ remand to ED to question Saddam.
The agency had recovered more than three dozen sale deeds, which are related to different land plots.
In the investigation so far in the land scam, Amit Aggarwal, Dilip Ghosh, former Deputy Commissioner of Ranchi Chhavi Ranjan, Revenue Sub Inspector of Bargain zone Bhanu Pratap Prasad, alleged ryot Pradeep Bagchi, land businessman Afsar Ali, Imtiaz Khan, Talha Khan and Faiyaz Khan have been arrested.
All the accused are currently in judicial custody.
Former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren was arrested in the land-grabbing case of 8.5 acres of land in the posh area of Ranchi. He is presently in judicial custody in Birsa Munda Central Jail Ranchi.
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