New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday conducted searches at nearly one dozen locations in West Bengal and Jharkhand in connection with illegally occupying Indian Army lands.
Reportedly, the raids are underway at nearly four places in West Bengal and eight in Jharkhand.
The places searched included residential and office premises of a Kolkata-based businessman Amit Agrawal and several others, sources said.
It is learnt that several acres of Army land in Jharkhand were illegally occupied in connivance with ‘land mafias’ and politicians.
Earlier, the ED last month had arrested Agrawal in connection with a money laundering case. He was also arrested in the connection with a seizure of Rs 50 lakh from an advocate Rajiv Kumar in Kolkata on July 31.
Agrawal, who is lodged in the Birsa Munda Central Jail in Jharkhand, is accused of allegedly giving the money to Kumar for getting his name removed from a public interest litigation filed in Jharkhand high court.