After CBI raids, ED gave raptus to Akhilesh Yadav in illegal mining case

New Delhi, Jan18: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a money laundering case in connection with illegal mining in Uttar Pradesh

"The role of the then mining ministers concerned during the relevant period may be looked into during the course of the investigation of the case," the CBI FIR had said.

CBI recently registered a criminal complaint and said it was probing the role of former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and some bureaucrats, officials said Thursday.

The officials said the ED filed the case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and pressed charges against those named by the CBI.

Akhilesh Yadav, who was the chief minister of the state between 2012 and 2017, held the mining portfolio during 2012-13 apparently bringing his role under the scanner, according to the FIR.

The other SP leader who was the mining minister during the period of the alleged scam is Gayatri Prajapati, currently in prison in a rape case. CBI had been probing the mining case since 2017.