Following her release, the Jharkhand government reinstated her with effect from the date of her release. In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, Singhal was appointed Secretary of the Department of Information Technology and e-Governance, along with an additional charge as Chief Executive Officer of Jharkhand Communication Network Ltd. (JCN), Ranchi, on Tuesday.On 29 January, the PMLA court sought approval from the Jharkhand government to prosecute her in the money laundering case linked to the siphoning of MGNREGA funds during her tenure as Deputy Commissioner in Khunti.Prior to her arrest, the ED had conducted raids at 18 locations, including her premises, across Bihar, Rajasthan, Haryana, the National Capital Region (NCR), and multiple districts in Jharkhand, such as Ranchi, Khunti, and Dhanbad. The investigation pertains to an alleged embezzlement of over Rs 18 crore in MGNREGA funds in Khunti district between 2008 and 2011.Singhal has also been accused of irregularities during her tenure as Deputy Commissioner in Chatra, where she allegedly paid Rs 6 crore in advance to two NGOs—Welfare Point and Prerna Niketan—for musli farming, which was never carried out. Additionally, while serving as Deputy Commissioner in Palamu, she was charged with transferring 83 acres of forest land to a private company for mining, a case linked to the Kathautia Coal Mines.
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