The Patna zonal office of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday arrested the senior section engineer of Jamalpur Railway Workshop, Chandeshwar Prasad Yadav, for alleged involvement in misappropriation of 100 condemned wagons and thousands of wheel sets apart from other excluded fittings of Eastern Railway’s Jamalpur railway workshop, estimated to be worth ₹34 crores.
He was arrested under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) 2002 and the special PMLA court remanded him to five days in ED custody. Earlier, ED had arrested the proprietor of Shree Maharani Steel, Dewesh Kumar, a resident of Bari Dariapur under Jamalpur police station area of Munger district. His wife Mitu Ravikar is a member of the Munger district board.
