17 sites in Jharkhand and West Bengal are raided by the ED for unlawful infiltration by Bangladeshis

In a money laundering probe connected to suspected illegal infiltration of Bangladeshi nationals, the Enforcement Directorate raided several places in poll-bound Jharkhand on Tuesday, in addition to West Bengal.The federal inquiry agency’s Jharkhand office conducts raids in 17 locations across the two neighboring states.

The first round of voting for the Jharkhand assembly elections is set to start on Wednesday, November 13. On November 20, the next stage will begin. Six assembly seats in Bengal will also have byelections tomorrow. To look into the infiltration and trafficking of some Bangladeshi women into Jharkhand, which led to the generation of purported slush money, the agency filed a case in September under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

The case was brought in response to a complaint made by a woman who allegedly used touts to enter the country illegally from across the India-Bangladesh border in search of employment. She also named five or six other women as offenders who were caught during a raid at a nearby resort.The woman who filed the complaint made her way to the police station after escaping from a similar establishment. It was also discovered that one of these women had a “fake” Aadhaar card.

During the most recent election campaign, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other BJP leaders accused the state administration of supporting this kind of infiltration, which changed the demographic makeup of the tribal-dominated regions of Santhal Pargana and Kolhan.

Modi criticized the Jharkhand government’s failure to acknowledge the infiltration issue in response to a High Court ruling to establish an unbiased panel to investigate the influx of Bangladeshi immigrants.On Wednesday, 43 constituencies will have the first round of the Assembly elections, and on November 20, 38 seats will hold the second round.

The Jharkhand Police FIR, which was filed in June at the Bariyatu police station in the state capital Ranchi, is the basis for the enforcement case information report (ECIR) that the federal agency submitted under several PMLA sections.