Debangana Ray
Published on August 9, 2022 at 17:33 IST
The Kolkata Police have sent a notice to a senior official of ED in alleged PIL-for-extortion scam.
The city police had allegedly arrested Rajiv Kumar, a Jharkhand-based lawyer for alleged extortion of money from a businessman nearly 50 Lakh Rupees was seized from him.
The accused allegedly extorted money by threatening them by getting their houses and offices raided by central investigative agencies.
The accused Rajiv Kumar is a practicing lawyer of Jharkhand High Court and is currently counsel for two PILs filed by Shiv Shankar Sharma against chief minister Hemant Soren seeking a CBI inquiry in connection with his mining lease and alleged shell companies operated by his associates.
He is also the counsellor for petitioner Arun Kumar Dubey related to the MNREGA scam.
The city police recently raided a few places in Ranchi and claimed that the accused has multiple properties, including flats, offices and farmhouses at Ranchi, Noida and Delhi.
“The name of the ED officer surfaced during interrogation and it was found from the accused’s chat history and call log that he had spoken to the official multiple times,” said a Kolkata Police official.