Advocate Nitesh Rana on Saturday resigned as the special public prosecutor of the Enforcement Directorate, citing personal reasons.
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As a special public prosecutor since 2015, Rana represented the federal agency in several high-profile cases, including those against former Union finance minister P Chidambaram, Congress leader D K Shivakumar, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and his family, TMC leader Abhishek Banarjee, and Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress leader Sonia Gandhi.
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Rana said his office will inform the court about the situation till the time some arrangements are made by the Enforcement Directorate.
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He represented the agency in matters such as the Jammu and Kashmir terror funding case against the Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Hizbul Mujahideen and in cases against terrorists like Hafiz Saeed and Syed Salahuddin.
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He also represented the agency in high-profile matters such as the Air India "scam", money laundering cases against Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi, and Bhushan Power and Steel, Ranbaxy-Religare fraud, Sterling Biotech scam, and the West Bengal cattle smuggling case.
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The Forbes Magazine selected Rana in its "Legal Powerlist of 2020".
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Rana, 44, also represented the ED in court in the United Kingdom in money laundering probe-related proceedings.