<p>Ranchi: The Jharkhand High Court on Friday directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to file its response to a petition filed by former Ranchi Deputy Commissioner Chhavi Ranjan challenging his detention.</p>.<p>The high court gave four weeks to the central agency to file an affidavit.</p>.<p>Ranjan has moved the court, challenging the order of cognisance taken against him by the Special Prevention of Money Laundering Act, Court, Ranchi.</p>.Jharkhand High Court grants three weeks' time to ED to respond to Soren's affidavit.<p>The 2011 batch IAS officer, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate after several raids were conducted in the state capital on May 4 last year, is alleged to have been instrumental in the sale of army land measuring 4.55 acres in Ranchi’s Bariatu area.</p>.<p>Ranjan has also challenged his detention in jail by the ED since that day. Besides Ranjan, 10 other persons have been accused in the case, including businessman Amit Kumar Agarwal.</p>.<p>Ranjan is accused of money laundering and being hand-in gloves with some builders and the land mafia.</p>.<p>He has also been accused of bungling land documents and records to suit some builders imploring them to buy government lands.</p>.<p>The Supreme Court in July last year dismissed Ranjan's bail plea in the case.</p>.<p>Three land parcels at Cheshire Home Road, Pugru and Siram, all in Ranchi, with a commercial value of Rs 161.64 crore, have been provisionally attached under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the ED had said.</p>.<p>According to the agency, these land parcels were "mutated fraudulently in favour of land mafia in connivance with the officers of the land revenue department".</p>.<p>The ED has alleged that a "huge racket of illegal change of ownership of land by mafia was going on in Jharkhand".</p>.<p>The agency has arrested 14 people in the case. </p>
<p>Ranchi: The Jharkhand High Court on Friday directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to file its response to a petition filed by former Ranchi Deputy Commissioner Chhavi Ranjan challenging his detention.</p>.<p>The high court gave four weeks to the central agency to file an affidavit.</p>.<p>Ranjan has moved the court, challenging the order of cognisance taken against him by the Special Prevention of Money Laundering Act, Court, Ranchi.</p>.Jharkhand High Court grants three weeks' time to ED to respond to Soren's affidavit.<p>The 2011 batch IAS officer, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate after several raids were conducted in the state capital on May 4 last year, is alleged to have been instrumental in the sale of army land measuring 4.55 acres in Ranchi’s Bariatu area.</p>.<p>Ranjan has also challenged his detention in jail by the ED since that day. Besides Ranjan, 10 other persons have been accused in the case, including businessman Amit Kumar Agarwal.</p>.<p>Ranjan is accused of money laundering and being hand-in gloves with some builders and the land mafia.</p>.<p>He has also been accused of bungling land documents and records to suit some builders imploring them to buy government lands.</p>.<p>The Supreme Court in July last year dismissed Ranjan's bail plea in the case.</p>.<p>Three land parcels at Cheshire Home Road, Pugru and Siram, all in Ranchi, with a commercial value of Rs 161.64 crore, have been provisionally attached under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the ED had said.</p>.<p>According to the agency, these land parcels were "mutated fraudulently in favour of land mafia in connivance with the officers of the land revenue department".</p>.<p>The ED has alleged that a "huge racket of illegal change of ownership of land by mafia was going on in Jharkhand".</p>.<p>The agency has arrested 14 people in the case. </p>