An order issued by the Ministry of Finance on Thursday mentioned the “President of India was happy to simply accept his resignation from the Indian Income Service (Customs and Oblique Taxes) with impact from July 17.”
The 45-year-old officer belonged to the 2009 batch of the IRS.
He was concerned within the arrest of Hemant Soren (Jharkhand) and Arvind Kejriwal (Delhi).
Sources near the officer spoke to PTI and attributed “private causes” for his resignation from authorities service the place he had about 15 extra years to serve, given the age of superannuation is 60.
Raj served within the ED for about eight years and lately accomplished his deputation within the federal anti-money laundering company.He was posted as an Further Commissioner within the GST Intelligence wing in Delhi until he resigned.The officer supervised the arrest of Jharkhand Chief Minister Soren in January final yr at Ranchi in an alleged land rip-off case.
The JMM chief met the governor at Raj Bhavan and resigned from his submit earlier than being taken into custody by the ED.
Raj was current throughout this assembly, quickly after which his crew took him into custody.
Few months later in March 2024, the officer reached the Flag Employees Street residence of the then Delhi chief minister Kejriwal following ED searches at his authorities bungalow.
Kejriwal was arrested on March 21 and Raj was current whereas the arrest memo was ready and served on the AAP supremo.
The officer used to organize and vet questionnaires for these high-profile political arrestees and he was identified to go to search areas many a instances to carefully monitor the investigation and enhance the morale of his groups, a senior ED officer mentioned.
Raj, a B. Tech (Electronics) graduate, headed the Ranchi zone of the ED as its joint director. He additionally supervised some high-profile investigations of the company that have been undertaken by the headquarters investigation unit (HIU) that probes politically delicate and sophisticated instances.
Whereas being posted in Mumbai as a deputy director of the ED, the officer additionally investigated cash laundering instances in opposition to diamantaire duo Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi aside from DHFL and Iqbal Mirchi instances.
Raj hails from a center class household primarily based in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, the official mentioned.
