The CBI today conducted raids at 35 places in Jharkhand, Bihar and Kolkata in West Bengal in connection with the allegations of horse trading that led to countermanding of the March 30 Rajya Sabha polls in Jharkhand.

Our Ranchi correspondent quoting CBI sources reports that the places where the raids were conducted include the premises of 14 MLAs of Congress, JMM, JVM, AJSU, RJD and BJP.

36 teams of the investigating agency swooped down upon the places early this morning in Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Bokaro, Hazaribagh, Godda apart from Bihar’s Banka district and Giridih.

On April 21, the CBI had raided the premises of three MLAs, Vishnu Bhaiyya (JMM), K N Tripathy (Congress) and Suresh Paswan (RJD) and independent candidate and industrialist R K Agarwal and his kin.

The agency has registered a case under relevant sections of law and the Income Tax department seized 2.15 crore rupees from a vehicle allegedly belonging to a relative of an independent candidate on the outskirts of Ranchi on the poll day.