ED files chargesheet against Pooja Singhal

Ranchi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday filed a supplementary prosecution complaint (chargesheet) against suspended IAS officer Pooja Singhal and others in connection with the multi-crore MGNREGA scam, which took place in Khunti district between 2006 and 2010, and money laundering.
The ED’s public prosecutor BMP Singh said, “The prosecution complaint has been registered under sections 3 and 4 of the PMLA.”
Sources said that seven persons, including Singhal, have been made accused in the case.
During the hearing, ED officials arrived at the court with the complaint documents along with two boxes of the original documents related to the scam.
Meanwhile, Singhal’s advocate Vishwajit Mukherjee said the court will take cognizance of the chargesheet.
“We expect the court to provide us with the copies of the charge-sheet,” he said.
Singhal is jailed at the Birsa Munda Central jail in connection with the scam. The ED had arrested her on May 11 following country-wide raids in connection with the scam on May 6. The ED was supposed to file the chargesheet within 60 days of the arrest. Singhal has already applied for bail on health grounds.