Jharkhand IAS officer Pooja Singhal remanded to ED custody for 5 more days
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A special PMLA court on Friday extended the ED custody of Pooja Singhal by five more days in connection to a money laundering case.
A special PMLA court on Friday extended the ED custody of Pooja Singhal, the suspended IAS officer from Jharkhand, by five more days in connection with a money laundering case linked to alleged embezzlement of MGNREGA funds, a lawyer of the central agency said.
Singhal's chartered accountant, Suman Kumar, was sent to judicial custody by the court of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Kumar was in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate for 13 days.
The 44-year-old IAS officer was suspended by the Jharkhand government on May 12 as part of the procedure undertaken, in case of a government servant being arrested in a criminal case, within 24 hours of the receipt of information.
"The special PMLA court remanded Pooja Singhal to ED custody for five more days from Saturday. Her chartered accountant Suman Kumar has been sent to jail for judicial custody," central agency’s counsel BMP Singh told PTI.
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The court of Justice Prabhat Kumar Sharma accepted the ED's plea of sending him to judicial custody, Singh said.
Singhal, the state mining department secretary, was arrested on May 11 by the ED after two consecutive days of interrogation.
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