Jharkhand Congress Minister Alamgir Alam resigns from post
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Jharkhand leader Alamgir Alam arrested in alleged tender scam resigned as a Cabinet Minister from the Champai Soren government
Jharkhand leader Alamgir Alam, arrested in alleged tender scam, resigned as a Cabinet Minister from the Champai Soren government. Mr. Alam on June 10 also resigned from the post of Congress legislative Party (CLP) in Jharkhand Assembly.
His resignation came after three days when Mr. Soren took all the ministerial posts from him and made him Minister without portfolio. Mr. Alam was handling four departments which included rural development, parliamentary affairs and rural works and panchayati raj.
On May 15, Enforcement directorate (ED) had arrested Mr. Alam in the alleged money laundering case. Before his arrest on May 6, the ED had arrested Mr. Alam’s Officer on Special Duty (OSD) Sanjiv Kumar Lal and the latter’s domestic help after the seizure of more than ₹36 crore from a flat linked to them.
According to the petition filed in the PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) court, ED revealed that Mr. Alam used to get 1.5% commission of every tender in his department. The ED had claimed in the petition that Virendra Ram, the then Chief Engineer of the Rural Development Department arrested on March 23, 2023 used to collect the commission of the tenders and passed it on to the Minister. Several assistant engineers of the department were involved in collecting and delivering the commission to Mr. Ram.
In the petition, the ED has also stated that the money recovered from premises linked to his OSD and domestic help belongs to Mr. Alam. Many documents, government papers and letters were from the house of domestic help.
The payment of commission was being carried out in an organised manner in which employees from lower level to top officials were part of it. It is believed that a large amount of cash has been exchanged and efforts are on to uncover the nexus.
He is not the first Congress leader in Jharkhand against whom the federal agencies have taken action. Earlier, the Income Tax (I-T) department had conducted raids at the places linked to the Odisha-based distillery group owned by the then Congress MP Dhiraj Sahu and recovered ₹350 crore in cash.
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