ED officer Niranjan Singh who questioned Majithia resigned
KS Diwan/ royalpatiala.in/ Jalandhar
Best investigator award recipient from former president Pranab Mukherjee, Enforcement Directorate (ED) Officer Niranjan Singh, who had questioned Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal brother-in-law and former Cabinet minister Bikram Singh Majithia in the high-profile Rs 6,000 crore synthetic drug racket money laundering case resigned from service.
Niranjan Singh who was posted as Deputy Director in the Punjab unit of ED at Jalandhar, tendered his resignation to Jalandhar ED office. He had three years of service left as he was scheduled to retire in 2021.Niraanjan Singh cited personal reasons for his decision to resign from service. But official associated with Singh said he was feeling “suffocated, demoralized, upset” since he started investigating Bhola drug case.
Niranjan Singh remained the Investigating Officer of the high profile drug case from 2013 till 2016. But in between during the investigation of the drug trafficking case in 2015, Singh was transferred to Kolkata in 2015, after he investigated Bikramjit Singh Majithia who is also a brother of Union Minister Harsimrat kaur Badal. But the issue of his transfer reached the Punjab and Haryana High Court which later revoked his transfer.
Apart from the drugs money laundering case, the officer was also the main investigating officer in a number of money laundering and forex violations cases in Punjab.
