Ranchi News: Amit Agarwal, a businessman from Kolkata, and Dilip Ghosh, the director of Jagatbandhu Tea Estate, were brought before a special court on Thursday by the ED after being detained a day earlier in relation to the fictitious sale and purchase of 4.55 acres of army-occupied land in Jharkhand.
Unveiling Money Laundering and Alleged Associates
Both have been transported to Birsa Munda Central Jail in Hotwar, Ranchi, per the court’s directions. On Friday, the court will consider the ED’s move to place both of them on remand for five days. Dilip Ghosh, who unlawfully purchased the land used by the army, is the director of Jagatbandhu Tea Estate, according to the ED, while Amit Agarwal is the second owner of the aforementioned business. On September 5, 2022, this business opened IDFC First Bank account number 10060532973. From this account, Amit Agarwal had laundered millions of dollars. Between 16 October 2020 and 25 July 2022, Rs 4 crore 69 lakh 80 thousand were put into this account. Immediately after, Rs 4 crore 13 lakh 87 thousand were transferred to the account of M/s Rajesh Auto Merchandise Private Limited. Amit Kumar Agarwal owns this corporation. Amit Agarwal also employed Vikas Jain and Deepak Saha, who made deposits into the account of Jagatbandhu Tea Estate.
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ED Uncovers Forgeries and Phoney Payments in Probe
The probe by the ED revealed that Pradeep Bagchi, the fictitious raiyat of the army-occupied land, had sold the aforementioned property to Dilip Ghosh, director of Jagatbandhu Tea Estate, for just Rs 7 crore instead of selling it at the government rate of Rs 20.75 crore. Only the payment of Rs. 25 lakh to Pradeep Bagchi has been verified through research. In addition, the land deed lists the payment of the remaining sum from IDFC First Bank’s 11 cheque numbers. All of the checks were discovered to be phoney after they had all been validated. On the deed, it is stated that the seller has confirmed the payment of Rs 7 crore. On June 4, 2022, the Bariatu police station in Ranchi received a complaint from Dilip Sharma, the tax collector for the Ranchi Municipal Corporation. In this, Pradeep Bagchi, a fictitious raiyat of the territory the army had taken over, was charged with acquiring two properties based on forgeries. The ED had registered ECIR 18/2022 based on this FIR. The investigators didn’t make a significant discovery on the land’s sale through tampering with the original documents until after this. The Forensic Lab Gandhinagar checked the original document, confirming the fraud.
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