New Delhi:
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided his (former Chief Minister’s) campuses on Monday (former Chief Minister’s) campuses against the son of former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel in the alleged liquor scam case and seized cash of Rs 33 lakh in addition to some documents. Sources said that 14 locations, including Laxmi Narayan Bansal alias Pappu Bansal, alleged close associate of Chaitanya Baghel, Chaitanya Baghel’s son Chaitanya Baghel’s son in Durg district, were searched under the provisions of the Prevention of Dhan Laundering Act (PMLA), including the complexes of Laxmi Narayan Bansal alias Pappu Bansal and some other. According to sources, Chaitanya has been summoned by ED on Tuesday for questioning.
- The raid started on Monday at around seven in the morning.
- There was also a security team of CRPF along with the ED search team.
- Chaitanya Baghel lives with his father in Bhilai, so that complex was also raided.
- Ended in the evening of search for eight hours.
- The ED also brought a cash count machine at the former Chief Minister’s residence.
After all, who is Chaitanya Baghel
Chaitanya is associated with the Congress, but he is currently distance from politics. So far he has not held any position in the party. It is said that when Bhupesh Baghel was in power in the state from 2018 to 2023, Chaitanya was planned to enter electoral politics. But this could not be realized. According to the source, when Baghel got a ticket from Rajnandgaon seat in the last Lok Sabha, it was being speculated that Chaitanya will be fielded from there, which was represented by the Patan assembly seat, which his father does. But this could not happen after Baghel’s defeat. Chaitanya was earlier associated with the business of real estate. But now they are looking at the work of farming of family vegetables.
Scam in Bhupesh Baghel -led government: ED
According to the ED, the alleged liquor scam took place between 2019 to 2022. When there was a Congress government led by Bhupesh Baghel in Chhattisgarh. Under this investigation, the ED has so far attached assets worth about 205 crore rupees of various accused. The apex court rejected the ED’s first ECIR (FIR) in the case in 2024, which was based on the complaint of the Income Tax Department. The ED then directed the Economic Offenses Wing (EOW)/Anti -Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Chhattisgarh to register a new FIR against the accused on the basis of the evidence collected by him and then he himself registered a new case.
The EOW/ACB lodged an FIR on January 17 last year and nominated 70 persons and companies including Lakhma and former Secretary Vivek Dhand. About a month before that, the Bharatiya Janata Party defeated the ruling Congress in the Chhattisgarh assembly elections.
The ED had earlier said that due to the Chhattisgarh liquor ‘scam’, the revenue of the state was “huge loss” and the earnings of more than Rs 2,100 crore from this crime went to the pockets of the beneficiaries of the liquor syndicate. In this case, the ED arrested Anwar Dhebar, the elder brother of Raipur and Congress leader Ejaz Dhebar, Anwar Dhebar, former IAS officer Anil Tuteja, Indian Telecommunications Service (ITS) officer Arunapati Tripathi and some others in January.
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