ED seizes ₹14 crunaccounted cash, jewellery, deeds from premises of names linked to coal scam

Enforcement Directorate personnel conducted raids at 44 locations in Bengal and Jharkhand on Friday and Saturday and recovered unaccounted cash totalling Rs 14 crores and substantial quantities of gold jewellery, along with 120 property deeds from offices and premises of persons connected with the coal smugg ling racket, an official statement released last night said.

- STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE

The coordinated raids were conducted in 20 premises in Jharkhand, including the establishments and entities of Lal Bahadur Singh, Anil Goyal, Sanjay Khemka, and Amar Mondal of Dhanbad and Dumka. Dhanbad's Singh had allegedly let loose his 12 pet dogs to prevent the access of the ED sleuths, the statement said.

"Twentyfour premises of Narendra Kharka, Krishna Murari Kayal, Lokesh Singh and Yudhisthir Ghosh at and near Durgapur's City Centre, as well as in Pandaveswar, Salt Lake, Kolkata, Purulia and Asansol in Bengal were raided," it added. The raids were conducted at residences, offices and some illegal toll collection booths, which were possessed and allegedly run by these persons with links to the coal smuggling scam.