New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested IAS officer Ranu Sahu after conducting search operations at 18 places in Chhattisgarh. The ED took this action in connection with the new money laundering case. Sources claimed that the PMLA case could be linked to the alleged rice scam.
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested IAS officer Ranu Sahu after conducting search operations at 18 places in Chhattisgarh. The ED took this action in connection with the new money laundering case. Sources claimed that the PMLA case could be linked to the alleged rice scam.
Apart from Sahu, the ED team also searched the premises of state Congress leader Ram Gopal Agarwal. The ED teams were being assisted by CISF personnel during the search operation.
On Friday, the ED carried out searches at the premises of Aggarwal and Sahu in Raipur’s Devendra Nagar. Another team of ED was seen at the hideout of Korba Municipal Corporation Commissioner Prabhakar Pandey.
CISF jawans did not allow anyone inside the house during the raid. The main door was locked and then the ED team started the search operation. Months ahead of elections, ED cracked whip on other officers also and conducted raids at premises of Korba municipal corporation commissioner Prabhakar Pandey too.
On July 18, the apex court had directed the ED to conduct a thorough probe into the Rs 2,000 crore liquor scam. Sahu is second IAS officer to be arrested in ongoing investigation by ED, after IAS Sameer Vishnoi was arrested and is behind bars for his alleged involvement in coal levy scam case. Previously in the same case, Ranu Sahu’s bureaucrat husband and IAS officer J P Maurya was also searched and questioned.
