Jharkhand: IAS Pooja Singhal suspended, CA Suman opened the secret, said – I have madam’s money too

After the arrest of ED, IAS Pooja Singhal was suspended on Thursday. The Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms has issued a notification related to this. Here, CA Suman Kumar admitted in the interrogation held in the ED office on Thursday that Madam (Pooja Singhal) also has money with me. He said that out of the crores of rupees seized, some money belongs to IAS Pooja Singhal, although he did not give information about how much money he has in it.

The posting of 2000 batch IAS Pooja Singhal was currently on the post of Industry Secretary. She was also in charge of the Secretary of the Department of Mines and Geology as well as the MD of Jharkhand State Mineral Development Corporation Limited. He was arrested by the ED on Wednesday under Section 19 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.

In the light of this arrest, he has been suspended with immediate effect under the All India Services (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1969. After being released from custody, during the period of suspension, his headquarters will be Department of Personnel, Administrative Reforms and Official Language. They will get subsistence allowance during the period of suspension.

On the third day also, Pooja Singhal was questioned, Abhishek and Suman also reached
IAS Pooja Singhal, her husband Abhishek Jha and CA Suman Kumar were again questioned at the ED office. After the arrest of IAS Pooja Singhal in the money laundering case, the ED took her on remand on Thursday. At 11.15 am, the ED team took him from Hotwar jail to the ED office. The tension of the first night in jail was clearly visible on his face.

She was in the same dress in which Hotwar went to jail on Wednesday. In the ED office, the doctors of Sadar Hospital checked his blood pressure and sugar. On the other hand, Dr RK Jaiswal, after coming out of the ED office, said that Pooja’s blood pressure and sugar are fine. Earlier, CA Suman was brought to the ED office at 10.30 am. He was taken for court appearance at 11.15 am. At the same time, at 11.20 in the morning, Abhishek Jha reached the ED office. In the morning itself, officials arrived in Kolkata with documents found in raids on the premises of builder Abhijit Sen.

Fake notes also came out in the count of seized rupees
ED seized cash worth Rs 19.31 crore in money laundering case and deposited it in PNB account. Officials said that about Rs 17.60 crore in cash was recovered from the premises of CA. The total amount recovered from the remaining other places was brought to the PNB Main Road branch. PNB officials were called and the counting of notes went on overnight. Some fake currency notes (fake currency) of 200, 500 and 2000 are also reported to be found in the count. The serial numbers of these notes have been sent to the ED officials.

CA is slowly opening its mouth
CA Suman Kumar has now started cooperating with ED. Rs 17.60 crore was recovered from his house. He has told the investigating agency that some of the money seized from him belonged to Pooja Singhal.

CA on ED remand of four days: ED presented Suman Kumar in court and requested for additional nine days of police remand. The court has granted police remand for four days.

Tough questions increase Pooja’s BP
In the course of interrogation in the ED office, when his health deteriorated, he was examined by the medical team, then his blood pressure was found to be uncontrolled many times. It was 150/110 in the morning, but as the scope of questions increased, his restlessness also increased. ED officials measured his blood pressure again at 8:30 pm. During this he had 172/110, which was found to be much higher than the set standards. On this he was given medicine.