ED will get custody of Chhattisgarh CM’s aide for 4 extra days in cash laundering case 

By PTI

RAIPUR: A particular courtroom right here on Tuesday allowed the custodial interrogation of bureaucrat Saumya Chaurasia, a deputy secretary posted in Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel’s workplace, by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for 4 extra days in a cash laundering case linked to an alleged coal levy rip-off within the state.

The courtroom additionally prolonged the judicial custody of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Sameer Vishnoi, coal dealer Suryakant Tiwari and two different accused by 4 extra days in the identical case.

Additional District and Sessions Judge Ajay Singh Rajput prolonged the ED remand by 4 days of Chaurasia after she was produced earlier than the courtroom on the expiry of her present custody, stated Chaurasia’s lawyer Faizal Rizvi.

Rizvi stated the ED had demanded ten-day custody of Chaurasia, however he opposed the plea within the courtroom citing she had been cooperating within the investigation and appeared 9 occasions earlier than the central company in response to its summons earlier than her arrest.

The courtroom additionally prolonged the judicial custody of Vishnoi, Suryakant Tiwari, his uncle Laxmikant Tiwari and one other coal businessman Sunil Agrawal by 4 days, he stated.

They shall be produced within the courtroom on December 10, Rizvi added.

Chaurasia, thought of an influential bureaucrat, was arrested underneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after questioning on December 2.

The cash laundering investigation was launched after the ED took cognisance of an Income Tax division grievance.

The monetary crimes probe company in October carried out multi-city raids within the state as a part of its probe.

It additionally arrested IAS officer Vishnoi, coal dealer Suryakant Tiwari, his uncle Laxmikant Tiwari and one other coal businessman Sunil Agrawal and named them as accused.

The case pertained to “a massive scam in which an illegal levy of Rs 25 per tonne was being extorted for every tonne of coal transported in Chhattisgarh by a cartel involving senior bureaucrats, businessmen, politicians and middlemen,” the ED had stated.

Chief Minister Baghel had dubbed the central probe company’s motion to arrest Chaurasia as “politically motivated.”

RAIPUR: A particular courtroom right here on Tuesday allowed the custodial interrogation of bureaucrat Saumya Chaurasia, a deputy secretary posted in Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel’s workplace, by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for 4 extra days in a cash laundering case linked to an alleged coal levy rip-off within the state.

The courtroom additionally prolonged the judicial custody of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Sameer Vishnoi, coal dealer Suryakant Tiwari and two different accused by 4 extra days in the identical case.

Additional District and Sessions Judge Ajay Singh Rajput prolonged the ED remand by 4 days of Chaurasia after she was produced earlier than the courtroom on the expiry of her present custody, stated Chaurasia’s lawyer Faizal Rizvi.

Rizvi stated the ED had demanded ten-day custody of Chaurasia, however he opposed the plea within the courtroom citing she had been cooperating within the investigation and appeared 9 occasions earlier than the central company in response to its summons earlier than her arrest.

The courtroom additionally prolonged the judicial custody of Vishnoi, Suryakant Tiwari, his uncle Laxmikant Tiwari and one other coal businessman Sunil Agrawal by 4 days, he stated.

They shall be produced within the courtroom on December 10, Rizvi added.

Chaurasia, thought of an influential bureaucrat, was arrested underneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after questioning on December 2.

The cash laundering investigation was launched after the ED took cognisance of an Income Tax division grievance.

The monetary crimes probe company in October carried out multi-city raids within the state as a part of its probe.

It additionally arrested IAS officer Vishnoi, coal dealer Suryakant Tiwari, his uncle Laxmikant Tiwari and one other coal businessman Sunil Agrawal and named them as accused.

The case pertained to “a massive scam in which an illegal levy of Rs 25 per tonne was being extorted for every tonne of coal transported in Chhattisgarh by a cartel involving senior bureaucrats, businessmen, politicians and middlemen,” the ED had stated.

Chief Minister Baghel had dubbed the central probe company’s motion to arrest Chaurasia as “politically motivated.”