Enforcement Directorate will get 8 day remand of Advocate Rajeev Kumar for blackmailing businessman

Express News Service

RANCHI: Enforcement Directorate on Thursday secured an 8-day remand of advocate Rajiv Kumar, who’s at the moment lodged at Alipur Jail in Bengal after being arrested by Kolkata police on July 31 together with Rs 50 lakh money from his possession, on the costs of blackmailing a Kolkata-based businessman Amit Agrawal after submitting a PIL in opposition to him in Jharkhand High Court. The particular PMLA court docket of Prabhat Kumar Sharma of Ranchi civil court docket granted police custody of Rajiv Kumar to ED, efficient from August 20.

Allegedly, Kumar had filed a PIL in Ranchi High Court in opposition to a Kolkata-based businessman and was asking Rs 10 crore to withdraw the PIL. After negotiations, he allegedly settled at Rs 1 crore for which the primary instalment of Rs 50 lakh was paid and he was caught red-handed with it.

Kumar was produced earlier than the PMLA court docket by means of video conferencing. The ED submitted earlier than the particular PMLA court docket that the company has taken up a case for an investigation associated to the seizure of Rs 50 lakh from the possession of Rajiv Kumar by which his police remand might be required.

The FIR was initially lodged by the Kolkata police at Hare Street police station. The ED knowledgeable the court docket that the company lodged an ECIR in Ranchi and Rajiv Kumar is the accused on this case.

RANCHI: Enforcement Directorate on Thursday secured an 8-day remand of advocate Rajiv Kumar, who’s at the moment lodged at Alipur Jail in Bengal after being arrested by Kolkata police on July 31 together with Rs 50 lakh money from his possession, on the costs of blackmailing a Kolkata-based businessman Amit Agrawal after submitting a PIL in opposition to him in Jharkhand High Court. The particular PMLA court docket of Prabhat Kumar Sharma of Ranchi civil court docket granted police custody of Rajiv Kumar to ED, efficient from August 20.

Allegedly, Kumar had filed a PIL in Ranchi High Court in opposition to a Kolkata-based businessman and was asking Rs 10 crore to withdraw the PIL. After negotiations, he allegedly settled at Rs 1 crore for which the primary instalment of Rs 50 lakh was paid and he was caught red-handed with it.

Kumar was produced earlier than the PMLA court docket by means of video conferencing. The ED submitted earlier than the particular PMLA court docket that the company has taken up a case for an investigation associated to the seizure of Rs 50 lakh from the possession of Rajiv Kumar by which his police remand might be required.

The FIR was initially lodged by the Kolkata police at Hare Street police station. The ED knowledgeable the court docket that the company lodged an ECIR in Ranchi and Rajiv Kumar is the accused on this case.