The Enforcement Directorate, ED, is conducting searches at more than 40 locations in Jharkhand and West Bengal against illegal coal mining in a money laundering case. The agency informed that more than one hundred ED officials and staff are carrying out the searches against the coal mafia. The search operation began earlier this morning at around 6 AM.
ED Kolkata is conducting searches at 24 premises in Durgapur, Purulia, Howrah, and Kolkata districts in the illegal coal mining, illegal transportation and storage of coal case. While ED Ranchi is conducting search operations across 18 locations in Jharkhand. These operations pertain to several major cases of coal theft and smuggling. The collective scale of the cases involves significant coal theft, resulting in a massive financial loss to the government, estimated to be hundreds of crores.
