When looking into former J&K minister Lal Singh’s money laundering, the ED attaches land

Nov. 29, New Delhi: As part of a money laundering inquiry against former Jammu and Kashmir minister Choudhary Lal Singh, his wife, and an educational trust she controlled, the Enforcement Directorate said on Wednesday that it has attached a property worth Rs. 1.21 crore.
     
R.B. Educational Trust (RBET) owns the property, and in accordance with the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), a temporary order has been granted to attach it, the organization stated in a statement.
     
According to the ED, the land was the “proceeds of crime generated out of criminal activity related to the scheduled offense of PMLA.”
     
On November 7, in Jammu, the former MP was taken into custody by the FBI. He is the Dogra Swabhiman Sangathan Party’s chairman as well.
     
In addition to Singh’s wife Kanta Andotra, the chairwoman of RBET, and former “patwari” Ravinder Singh of the J-K administration, there is a money laundering case based on a CBI FIR and charge sheet.
     
“Choudhary Lal Singh, along with his wife Kanta Andotra, in connivance with revenue officers and officials, i.e., the then patwari, the then gridawar, the then naib tehsildar, and the then tehsildar, used his stature and official position to get the land measuring 167 kanals and 15 marlas, having value at the time of possession of proceeds of crime as Rs 1.21 crore (as per circle rate in 2011), transferred forcibly in the name of RBET,” according to the ED.