ED Arrests Pankaj Mishra In Tender Scam Case

RANCHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday arrested Pankaj Mishra in connection with its money laundering probe in the Sahebganj tender scam case.

A senior ED official related to the probe said that the agency arrested Mishra, MLA representative of Jharkhand CM, after questioning him for over eight hours.

The arrest of Mishra comes days after the ED carried out searches at 18 locations including the premises of several persons on July 8.

After the searches, the financial probe agency recovered a huge amount of cash and several documents of properties and documents related to illegal stone mining.

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