Mining scam: Arrest warrants against Ashok Singhvi, others issued

JAIPUR: A designated special court has issued

arrest warrants

against eight accused in the

mining scam

including the tainted civil servant

Ashok Singhvi

under the money laundering act (PMLA) 2002. The court issued the order on a prosecution proceeding initiated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

The arrest warrants were issued to Sanjay Sethi, Ashok Singhvi (then principal secretary mines, Rajasthan), Pankaj Gehlot (then additional director, headquarters, directorate of mines and geology, Udaipur), Pushkar Raj Ameta (then superintendent mining engineer, Bhilwara), chartered accountant Shyam Sunder Singhvi, Mohammad Rashid Sheikh, Dhirendra Singh alias Chintu and Tamanna Begum, wife of late Mohammad Sher Khan.

The ED initiated investigation

against

Sethi and others under PMLA based on an FIR by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on allegations of large-scale corruption in the Rajasthan mines department.

The investigation revealed that Mohammad Sher Khan paid Rs 2.55 crore to Sethi through Mohammad Rashid Sheikh and Shyam Sunder Singhvi to bribe government officials and middlemen for re-opening of mines.


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