The sorting machines arranged by the Enforcement Directorate to count the huge pile of cash recovered from the house of a servant of the OSD of Rural Development Minister Alamgir Alam are said to be heating up and stopped working.
Sources said that the cash in the bundles of Rs 500 and Rs 200 notes may be not less than Rs 40 crores, which was recovered in today’s ED raids.
The counting of notes continues at the time of filing of this report.
According to reports the whole story began with a bribe of just Rs 10,000 leading to the ED raid in 2023 at the house of Chief Engineer of Rural Works Department Virendra Ram.
It is being said that Ram had accepted in the interrogation that the bribe amount goes up to the top.
Also, in the interrogation, the name of Minister Alamgir Alam surfaced. After several phases of investigation, the strings of the matter reached Alamgir's OSD Sanjeev Lal, whose servant’s house was raided by the ED on Monday.
Virendra Ram was arrested in February 2023. He has been in jail since then.
Sources said that bundles of notes were kept in bags, suitcases and polybags were recovered in the ED raid today. "There is a pile of bundles of notes," said one of them.
Raids are being conducted at about half a dozen locations by the ED teams. The action of ED is also being taken at the locations of suspended Chief Engineer Virendra Ram and his close ones.
Earlier, in 2023 ED had conducted search operations in Ranchi, Jamshedpur and some other places in Jharkhand, Bihar and Delhi.
The agency had seized cash worth Rs 30 lakh, jewellery worth Rs 1.5 crore, 8 luxury cars and SUVs worth several crores, flats and bungalows in metro and other cities from various premises linked to Virendra Ram.
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