The Patna zonal office of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday provisionally attached immovable and movable properties worth ₹3.44 crore belonging to a jailed senior section engineer (SSE) of Jamalpur Railway Workshop and his family members under the provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in a Disproportionate Assets Case.
The accused SSE, Chandeshwar Prasad Yadav, is currently lodged in jail for alleged involvement in misappropriation of 100 condemned wagons and thousands of wheels sets, apart from other excluded fittings of Eastern Railway’s Jamalpur Railway Workshop, estimated to be worth ₹34 crore.
The attached properties include five immovable properties worth ₹1.19 crore, ₹35.85 lakh investment in seven mutual funds, four insurance policies worth ₹7.97 lakh, and 29 fixed deposits worth ₹1.64 crore.
