ED arrests former IAS Anil Tuteja in Chhattisgarh liquor scam case
Hindustan TimesNew Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has arrested retired Indian Administrative Service officer Anil Tuteja in its fresh money laundering probe into the alleged corruption in Chhattisgarh liquor industry, people familiar with the development said on Sunday. In its fresh case, ED has named all those 70 accused booked by the police, including Anil Tuteja, his son Yash Tuteja, several Congress leaders, bureaucrats, and businessmen over alleged corruption worth Rs.2,000 crore. After the government changed, the state police filed a fresh FIR, also naming then excise minister Kawasi Lakhma, former special secretary at the department of excise and the managing director of Chhattisgarh State Marketing Corporation Limited Arun Pati Tripathi, former bureaucrat Vivek Dhandh and Congress leader Anwar Dhebar. Earlier, in its charge sheet filed in the July 2023 first week, which now stands quashed, ED alleged that Rs.776 crore of the Rs.2,161 crore collected in the Chhattisgarh liquor scam by Anwar Dhebar, the prime accused and brother of Aijaz Dhebar, went to “political executives”. Congress leader and former state chief minister Bhupesh Baghel has said the Supreme Court ruling exposed the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government’s “political misuse” of federal investigative agencies.