He was later produced in a court docket in Raipur, which despatched him to five-day ED custody. The arrest adopted a search at Baghel's home in Bhilai on Friday morning.
The previous CM and Congress chief confirmed the arrest in a submit on X, “thanking” Prime Minister Narendra Modi and residential minister Amit Shah for the “birthday present” to his son.
“The form of birthday presents Modi and Shah give can't be given by anybody in any democracy of the world. On my birthday, each probably the most revered leaders despatched the ED to the homes of my advisor and two OSDs,” he mentioned in his submit.
“And now, on my son Chaitanya's birthday, the Enforcement Directorate group is raiding my home. Thanks for these presents. I'll keep in mind them for all times.” The previous CM claimed this was completed to stop him from elevating the difficulty of timber being felled for a coal mine undertaking of Adani Group in Tamnar tehsil of the state's Raigarh district.
“Congress is preventing towards Adani,” he informed the media. “This technique has been adopted to muzzle the opposition. They're now concentrating on my son, in order that nobody can increase their voice towards Adani. We won't get scared or bow down. At present, my son has been arrested on his birthday. Final yr, on my birthday, my advisor was focused.”ET had reported in March that the Chhattisgarh authorities knowledgeable the Supreme Court docket that police investigation has put the extent of loss to the exchequer as a result of alleged liquor rip-off at almost ₹5,000 crore. ET had in April 2024 reported that ED had claimed that former IAS officer Anil Tuteja was the “chief architect” of the alleged scandal. The company had registered a contemporary FIR on April 9, 2024, primarily based on an current FIR registered by the Financial Offences Wing.The contemporary FIR was filed after the SC quashed ED's earlier FIR that was primarily based on an earnings tax division grievance. ED had claimed that its probe revealed that Tuteja was in receipt of the proceeds of crime amounting to ₹14.41 crore and was the “mastermind” of the alleged liquor scandal.
Personal liquor outlets will not be allowed to function in Chhattisgarh. All liquor outlets are run by state government-owned M/s CSMCL (Chhattisgarh State Advertising and marketing Company Ltd), which is the one entity with the accountability to requisition and buy liquor from distillers and IMFL suppliers. The liquor is then offered by roughly 800 state-run outlets. These outlets are run by out-sourced manpower suppliers and the money generated by sale of liquor is collected by outsourced money assortment businesses.
Individuals quoted earlier had claimed “complicit officers” had been posted at essential positions they usually had “political backing to keep away from any backlash”.
