In connection with a money laundering inquiry into an alleged liquor fraud in the state, the Enforcement Directorate searched various locations on Wednesday, according to official sources. These locations included those connected to Rohit Oraon, son of Jharkhand Finance Minister Rameshwar Oraon, and some others.The central probe agency’s employees are monitoring about 34 locations in the state capital Ranchi, Dumka, Deoghar, and Godda districts under the CRPF’s security umbrella.
Since the father and son share a home, the older Oraon’s property is covered. They said that some spirits industry businessmen’s homes and places of business were also covered. Rameshwar Oraon, 76, is the assemblyman for the Lohardaga (ST) district in the state that he won on the Congress platform.In the Jharkhand government presided over by Chief Minister Hemant Soren, he is in charge of finance, planning, and commercial tax.
Rameshwar Oraon, an IPS officer from the 1972 batch who previously served as a Union cabinet minister under the previous prime minister Manmohan Singh, is now retired. According to the sources, the current investigation is being carried out in accordance with the PMLA’s rules.
