The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday arrested Bihar cadre Indian Administrative Service officer Sanjeev Hans and former Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MLA Gulab Yadav in a money laundering case. They have been arrested on charges of Bihar's Jal Jeevan Mission scam and corruption. Gulab Singh is currently associated with the BSP. According to the information, Sanjeev Hans has been arrested from Patna, while Gulab Yadav has been detained from Delhi under the sections of PMLA. These arrests were made ahead of the ED search on Friday.

Hans, a 1997 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, has been the Principal Secretary of Bihar Energy Department, while Yadav is a former RJD MLA. He represented the Jhanjharpur assembly seat in Madhubani district from 2015 to 2020. The money laundering case against both of them is related to an FIR of Bihar Police. Searches were conducted at five places

Last month, the ED had conducted further searches at the premises of people and organisations with whom IAS Sanjeev Hans had financial transactions. Searches were conducted at 5 locations in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata between September 10 and 12. During the search operation, Rs 87 lakh in cash, 13 kg silver bullion worth about Rs 11 lakh and 2 kg gold bullion and jewellery worth about Rs 1.5 crore were seized.

Apart from this, various incriminating evidence containing details of hawala, banking transactions were also recovered and seized. Earlier, the ED had conducted searches at various locations in Patna, Delhi, Pune, Haryana and Punjab on July 16, July 19, July 31 and August 23> Various physical and digital evidence including gold jewellery were found in it> Also, luxury watches worth Rs 80 lakh and Rs 70 lakh were seized from the premises of Sanjeev Hans.