Chaitanya Baghel, son of former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel, was arrested on Friday by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on charges of money laundering in connection with the alleged Rs 2,161-crore liquor scam.
He was subsequently produced before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act court in Raipur and remanded in ED custody for five days. According to the ED, the alleged scam involved a syndicate of senior state bureaucrats, politicians, and excise department officials who are accused of running a “parallel” excise department, wherein liquor was sold to the public, but no money came to the state exchequer, causing the government a loss of around Rs 2,161 crore. It is alleged to have taken place between 2019 and 2022, during the previous Congress government in Chhattisgarh that was helmed by Bhupesh Baghel.
Bhupesh Baghel said the ED action was an attempt to prevent him from raising in the Assembly the issue of trees being felled for a coal mine project by the Adani Group in the Tamnar tehsil of the state’s Raigarh district.
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