Summary:
Pradeep was a Bihar cadre IAS official, but went to Jharkhand after the state’s bifurcation in 2000. He was Patna DM from February 21 to April 4, 1998. The book value of the properties was around Rs2.5 crore. “The firm with involvement of their chartered accountant Shyamal Chakravarty was used by Pradeep and Shahi to launder money generated through illegal means,” the official said.ED had, in March 2015, took possession of four Gurgaon-based immovable properties of Shahi and his close aides. While properties associated with Pradeep, including one premium flat each at Kolkata and Ranchi, two houses at Udaipur and a plot of land at Bengaluru were attached on Tuesday, we would start attaching properties associated with Shahi in a few days,” an ED official at Patna said.He said Shahi and Pradeep formed a shell company named M/S Essar Enterprises..