A day after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) issued summons to the Rajasthan Congress chief’s two sons in the exam paper leak case, the State Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on November 2 arrested an Enforcement Officer of ED, posted in Manipur’s Imphal, and his associate in Alwar. The two accused were charged with taking a bribe of ₹15 lakh.
The ED had summoned Pradesh Congress Committee president Govind Singh Dotasra’s sons, Abhilash and Avinash, to appear before it next week over their alleged involvement in the paper leak case, in which the Central agency had carried out raids on Mr. Dotasra premises over suspicion of money laundering on October 26. This had prompted Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot to retort that the Centre was using the ED like a “swarms of locusts” ahead of the State Assembly election.
ACB’s Additional Director-General Hemant Priyadarshi said here that the accused officer, Nawal Kishore Meena, had demanded ₹17 lakh for settling a case related to a chit fund, in which he allegedly assured the complainant that he would not be arrested, and his property would not be attached. The chit fund case was registered at the ED’s sub-zone office in Imphal.
