ED conducts raids at scrap dealer's house in Sahibganj
The Rs 734-crore GST scam is allegedly a complex fraud planned by some traders from Jharkhand with implications in other states.
ED has, however, not made any official statement about the raid.
Sources said a four-member team of the ED, comprising a woman officer, assisted by CRPF personnel, entered the house of Bablu Gupta alias Bablu Kabadi located in the Bangali Tola Mohalla under the jurisdiction of the town police station around 7 am, and reportedly searched the house.
"We were taken aback as unknown people in civilian clothes, accompanied by CRPF personnel, barged into our home. They started searching the entire premises even before we could understand anything," a member of the scrap dealer's family was quoted as saying to the neighbours.
The family member also added that the operation continued for nearly six hours.
During the search operation, one of the ED officials stepped out of the house along with a teenage boy of the Gupta family. They went somewhere and returned after some time, eyewitnesses said.
Police said locals gathered outside Gupta's house out of curiosity as the news of the ED raid spread.
Meanwhile, Sahibganj SP Amit Kumar Singh added, "We have no official intimation about the matter."
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