Chhattisgarh liquor scam: ACB team reached court with challans in 24 bundles in CG 2161 crore liquor scam, investigation completed in 5 months
Chhattisgarh liquor scam: Raipur. EOW-ACB will present the challan in the court today in the liquor scam case. The ACB team has left for the court from the headquarters with the challan and documents in vehicles. On the basis of information received from the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the ACB had registered an FIR in this case on January 17 this year. During the investigation, the agency arrested many absconding accused in the case, including former Special Secretary of the Excise Department AP Tripathi. ACB has arrested a big liquor businessman of Bhilai along with some other people.
The names of IAS Niranjan Das, Anil Tuteja, his son Yash Tuteja along with AK Tripathi, Vivek Dhand and the then Excise Minister Kawasi Lakhma are included in the AIS of the liquor scam. Anwar Dhebar, Arvind Singh, Vijay Bhatia along with more than a dozen officers and employees of the Excise Department are also involved in the liquor scam.
ED had applied in March 2023
It is being told that the application on the basis of which ED has registered an FIR in the liquor scam was given by ED to ACB-EOW in March 2023. But then there was a Congress government in the state, so FIR was not registered at that time, but now after the change of power, the state government agency has registered FIR in these cases. FIR has been registered in both the cases under the sections of fraud and corruption.
An FIR is also registered in Noida
An FIR has also been registered in Noida in the liquor scam. This FIR was registered by Noida Police on the complaint of ED. Five people including the Secretary and Special Secretary of the Excise Department have been made accused in it. This FIR has been registered in Noida’s Kasana police station under sections 420, 468, 471, 473 and 120B of the IPC. In this FIR, ED has told Noida’s Kasana police that ED is investigating the liquor scam in Chhattisgarh. In this investigation, ED has found out that the tender was given to Noida-based M/s Prism Holography Security Films Private Limited in an illegal manner, while the company was not even eligible to participate in the tender. Despite this, the company got the tender in connivance with the officers of the Excise Department of Chhattisgarh. It is alleged that the officers of Chhattisgarh took a commission of eight paise per hologram in this case. The name of Holography Company’s MD Vidu Gupta is also mentioned in the FIR.