ED’s raid in Birsa Munda Central Jail revealed, Prem Prakash met Chhavi Ranjan in the evening with his face covered

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Ranchi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided Birsa Munda Central Jail on Monday and took CCTV footage into its possession. Investigation of CCTV footage has found that money laundering accused Prem Prakash met former Ranchi Deputy Commissioner Chhavi Ranjan in jail after sunset. He entered Chhavi Ranjan’s ward at 6:41 pm and came out at 7:36 pm. During this, Prem Prakash had wrapped a towel around his face. As a rule, the prisoners’ rooms are closed after sunset. There is a provision to open the prisoners’ rooms only in odd circumstances after the evening.

Both of them met in the jail on the evening of May 5. Chhavi Ranjan had spent the night of May 5 and 6 in jail after her arrest. Significantly, during the interrogation of ED, Chhavi Ranjan has said that he does not know Prem Prakash at all. They have never even met, but with this new revelation of ED, prima facie the conspiracy hatched by these persons in the purchase and sale of land by forgery is confirmed. Also, the role of jail officials and employees has become suspicious.

ED officials had received information that while in jail, Prem Prakash had met Chhavi Ranjan after sunset. After getting information about the meeting of both, the ED filed an application in the PMLA court and requested to issue a search warrant to raid the jail. The ED had said in its application that there is information about the meeting of Prem Prakash and Chhavi Ranjan in the jail. Information about the involvement of Prem Prakash, Chhavi Ranjan and Amit Agarwal in the conspiracy hatched in the case of purchase and sale of land by forging documents has been received during the investigation. To confirm this information found in the investigation, it is necessary to check the CCTV footage by raiding the jail. In view of the facts mentioned in the ED’s application, the court issued a search warrant on May 15.

After getting the search warrant from the court, the ED team reached Birsa Central Jail at around 3:00 pm on Monday afternoon. Here the team expressed its desire to meet the Jail Superintendent. The superintendent was not in jail. Other jail officials made the ED officers sit in the superintendent’s room. The Superintendent was informed about the arrival of ED officials. After some time the superintendent arrived. As soon as he reached, the ED officials seized the search warrant from the superintendent, took him inside and started raiding. During this, the CCTV footage was examined. It was found that after sunset, Prem Prakash came out of his ward covering his face with a pot and went to Chhavi Ranjan’s ward. After about 55 minutes, Prem Prakash returned to his ward.

The ED had arrested Chhavi Ranjan on May 4 and produced her in the court on May 5 on charges of buying and selling land by forging documents. His interrogation is going on after taking him on remand from May 7. During the investigation, the conspiracy hatched by Prem Prakash, Chhavi Ranjan, Amit Agarwal and others in this entire episode came to the fore. Information about these facts has been given to the court by the ED at the time of the arrest of Chhavi Ranjan and seven businessmen of the land. It is also worth mentioning here that a legal dispute is going on between the ED and the jail administration regarding the demand for CCTV footage. The ED had sought CCTV footage from the jail administration after receiving information about money laundering accused celebrating in the jail. The jail administration requested the court to stay the ED’s demand. However, after hearing the ED’s side, the court ordered the CCTV footage to be given. The jail administration has challenged this order of the PMLA court in the High Court, but due to flaws in the petition, it has not been heard. The court had directed the jail administration to remove the loopholes, but the jail administration has not removed it.

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