The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested 1997-batch Bihar cadre IAS officer Sanjeev Hans and former Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MLA Gulab Yadav late on Friday night under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
Hans, a principal secretary-rank officer, is currently posted with the general administration department. He was arrested from his official residence in Patna, produced before a magistrate and forwarded to jail on Saturday.
Yadav, who was an RJD MLA from Jhanjharpur between 2015 and 2020, was taken into custody from a luxury resort on the outskirts of Delhi. He was brought to the state capital on Saturday and forwarded to prison.
The ED action came after a daylong raid on five premises related to Hans and Yadav in Patna and Delhi. The ED had registered a case against both in July and followed it up with another one in September after FIRs were registered by Bihar police in an alleged gang-rape case of an advocate of Allahabad High Court. A special vigilance unit also charged Hans with financial irregularities.
