Raipur, July 22 (PTI), a special court here on Tuesday, handed over Chaitanyu Baghel, son of the head of congress and former main Minister Bhupesh Baghela, in 14 days judgment in the event of money washed with alleged fraud with liqueur.
Chaitanya was arrested by the Directorate of Law enforcement (ED) 18 July after his search in his house, which he shares with his father in Bhilai in the Durg district in the state.
The defendant was submitted before the court from another judge of districts and sessions (VI) Damarudhar Chouhan on Tuesday after his custody, told reporters of the consultant of the central probes Saurab Kumar Pande.
During his custody, Chaitanya was interrogated and confronted with statements and documents during which he admitted in many points. There was not much to question, so Ed asked the court for his judgment, he said.
The court sent him to jail in jurisdiction until 4 August, he added. If necessary, the agency may be questioned with consent, he said. Ed in the statement claimed that chaitanya “managed” more than £1 000 crore worth “proceeds from crime” generated from alcohol “fraud” in the State and used £16.7 Crore for the development of its real estate project.
“Chaitanya was in receiving a decree on criminal activity £16.70 crore. He used his real estate companies to mix these funds. It was found that in the development of his property project he used the amount of cash (proceeds from crime), ”he said.
His father Bhupesh Baghel claimed that the central agencies were abused to focus on the opposition leader, but stressed that he had trusted the judiciary and cooperated.
The former cm claimed that the ED action against his son was launched to distract attention from the “illegal pulling of trees” for the coal mines in the state, because the congress was set to raise the problem in the State Assembly last week. On Tuesday, Congress organized a “Chakka jam” (road blockade) in different parts of the state to protest against Ed’s action. Ed said that alleged fraud resulted in a “massive loss” of the treasury and filled the pockets of recipients of the alcohol syndicate with over £2 100 crore.
According to ED, the “fraud” in the state was organized between 2019 and 2022, when Chhattisgarh was dominated by the Congress Government led by Bhupesh Baghel. In January, Ed arrested former Minister and leader of the Kawasi Lakhma Congress, in addition to Anwar Dhebar, former officer Ias Anil Tenteja, Indian telecommunications service (ITS) ARUDPATI Tripathi and some others in their investigation.
EOW/ACB registered the company 17 January last year, about a month after BJP defeated Congress in surveys for the assembly of 2023, and appointed 70 individuals and companies, including former Minister of Consumer Tax Kawasi Lakhm and former main secretary Vivek Dhand. According to the ED, the alleged commission created by illegal alcohol sale was shared “according to instructions from the highest political executives of the state”.
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