The CBI today conducted raids on the premises of two independent MLAs and the relatives of several other legislators in connection with allegations of horse-trading of the March 30 Rajya Sabha elections in Jharkhand. This had led to countermanding of the elections by the election commission.

This is the fourth raid carried out by the sleuths of the CBI after it took over the investigation into the horse trading allegation that surfaced after the recovery of 2.15 crore rupees from a vehicle in Ranchi, hours before the Rajya Sabha elections.

So far the CBI had conducted raids on the premises of 20 MLAs, who allegedly turned proposers for one or the other independent MLAs for that scrapped poll.