NEW DELHI: Greater than 100 acres of agricultural land and different immovable property value about Rs 122 crore of Haryana Congress MLA Surender Panwar, former INLD legislator Dilbag Singh and another people have been hooked up beneath the anti-money laundering regulation in an alleged unlawful mining case, the Enforcement Directorate stated on Monday.
“All these properties are registered within the title of individuals and entities, operating a syndicate managed and managed by Dilbag Singh and Surender Panwar, who indulged in large-scale unlawful mining of sand, boulder and gravel within the Yamuna Nagar district of Haryana and a few adjoining districts,” the central company stated in a press release.
Dilbag Singh and Panwar, a 55-year-old Congress legislator from the Sonipat meeting seat, had been raided and arrested by the ED just lately on this case. The 145 immovable properties embody greater than 100 acres of agricultural land, some industrial plots and buildings — all value about Rs 122 crore. These property are situated in Gurugram, Faridabad, Sonipat, Karnal, Yamuna Nagar, Chandigarh, Panchkula and different districts of Punjab and Haryana they usually belong to Dilbag Singh, Panwar, Inderpal Singh, Manoj Wadhwa, Kulwinder Singh (of PS Buildtech), Angad Singh Makkar and Bhupinder Singh, it stated.
A provisional order beneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA) has been issued by the ED to connect these property. The cash laundering case stems from a number of FIRs registered by the Haryana Police beneath varied sections of the IPC and Atmosphere Safety Act, 1986 associated to unlawful mining of sand, boulder-gravel and boulder-gravel-sand in Yamuna Nagar in opposition to varied mining lease holder firms and others.
These booked had been firms namelyMubarikpur Royalty Firm, Improvement Methods (India) Pvt Ltd, Delhi Royalty Firm, JSM Meals Pvt Ltd and PS Buildtech aside from varied screening vegetation, stone crushers and related individuals. The company stated that it estimates that proceeds of crime value greater than RS 300 crore had been generated out of this “unlawful” mining.
The act of unlawful excavation and sale of minor minerals was executed by these 5 mining contractors of Yamuna Nagar District. This was executed by means of unlawful transportation of the mined minerals with out producing the requisite e-Rawana payments from the Mining division portal, or by manufacturing of pretend bodily copies of the e-Rawana payments, it claimed.
Money generated from these unlawful actions was distributed amongst these members as beneficiaries of the mining entities, the ED stated. After the raid and arrests by the ED, the Congress had accused the BJP-led authorities on the Centre of misusing central companies in opposition to opposition leaders. Meeting polls in Haryana are due later this yr.