The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed an FIR with the police in opposition to former Haryana MLA Dilbag Singh and a dozen others allegedly related to him on costs of unlawful mining and “diverting” the circulate of the River Yamuna.
The federal company had raided the previous Indian Nationwide Lok Dal (INLD) legislator from Yamunanagar Meeting seat, Congress MLA from Sonipat Surender Panwar and their linked entities earlier this month in an alleged unlawful mining linked money-laundering case.
It had arrested Dilbag Singh and his affiliate Kulwinder Singh after raiding about 20 premises of the 2 politicians and their linked individuals in Yamunanagar, Sonipat, Mohali, Faridabad, Chandigarh, and Karnal.
These searches had been based mostly on a case, registered underneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA), that took cognisance of a number of FIRs of the Haryana Police relating to unlawful mining of boulders, gravel and sand that happened previously in Yamunanagar and close by districts even after the lease expiry interval and the Nationwide Inexperienced Tribunal’s order.
The ED’s Gurugram zone joint director Navaneet Agrawal had filed a police FIR on the Pratap Nagar police station in Yamunanagar on January 19 alleging that the searches performed by the company on January 4 discovered that Singh, his associates and a few firms “violated environmental norms such as in-stream mining using heavy machinery during off hours, diversion of the flow of the River Yamuna by laying layer of sand in the lease area to extract more quantity of sand.”
The criticism added that the proceeds earned out of the “illegal unscientific mining” has been routed via varied dummy entities in fictitious names, depositing big money in these entities and layering of such cash into their private financial institution accounts, associated firms and entities.
The company named companies corresponding to Delhi Royalty Firm, Mubarikpur Royalty Firm, Improvement Methods (India) Non-public Restricted, JSM meals Non-public Limted and PS Buildtech within the FIR whereas it named Dilbag Singh, Rajinder Singh and 11 different individuals as accused.
It has invoked sections of the Mines and Minerals (Regulation of Improvement) Act, Atmosphere Safety Act, and part 120B (prison conspiracy) and 420 (dishonest) of the IPC, within the FIR. The company could embody the contents of this FIR in its ongoing money-laundering case in opposition to Dilbag Singh and others.