“Jal Jeevan Mission scam: ED raids 25 locations including office of Rajasthan Congress minister Mahesh Joshi for his alleged links”, Opindia, November 3, 2023:
“The Enforcement Directorate Friday (November 3) raided 25 locations in Jaipur and Dausa in Rajasthan in connection with a money laundering case in the alleged Jal Jeevan Mission scam. The places included the office of Dr Mahesh Joshi, the Rajasthan government’s water supply minister and the home of Subodh Agarwal, the Additional Chief Secretary in the Public Health Engineering Department (PHE) department.
Other premises of some engineers, contractors, and former state government officials, who are suspected to have links in the case, were also raided by the federal agency.
The ED had conducted similar raids in multiple cities of Rajasthan in a money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in the execution of the Centre’s Jal Jeevan Mission scheme in September as well and seized unaccounted cash of Rs 2.32 crore and a gold bar worth Rs 64 lakh……”
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