Weeks before Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren shot off a letter on November 17 to the Enforcement Directorate (ED), challenging its claims in the alleged mining scam in the state, the probe agency had already dispatched a letter to the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) on the massive extent of the scandal.
In a September 10 letter to MoEF Secretary, Leena Nanda, the ED, following its investigation into the PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) case, pegged the financial loss due to alleged illegal and unrecorded transportation of stone chips at Rs 1,350 crore.
The ED also informed the MoEF Secretary that an equal number of 1,350 railway rakes were used to transport the illegally mined stone chips from railway stations located at Pirpainti in Bihar and Barharwa and Sahibganj in Jharkhand.
