Maharashtra bureaucrat stopped from flying out of India after lookout notice

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Top Maharashtra bureaucrat Sanjeev Jaiswal was deplaned and stopped from flying to Colombo in Sri Lanka on July 14 amid a probe by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the Covid Center Scam case..

The ED found property documents worth crores from Sanjeev Jaiswals house last month during a search operation in connection with the alleged scam...

Jaiswal, who was with his wife onboard the aircraft, claimed that he had permission from the state government to fly abroad, but wasn't allowed to fly on the basis of a Look Out Circular (LOC) issued by the probe agency...

It added that under a contract signed by the Mumbai civic body's mayor, a particular entity was supplying body bags for dead Covid-19 patients to others at Rs 2,000, while the same company supplied body bags to the Central Procurement Department of the BMC at Rs 6,800...

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