Suspended IAS Ranu Sahu, Soumya Chaurasia and IAS Sameer Vishnoi, lodged in Raipur Central Jail, were interrogated in the coal scam case of Chhattisgarh. In the last 3 days, the ED team has interrogated for 3 to 4 hours. However, no specific information has been found in this. The ED team is gathering information about the connections and involvement of politicians in the scam.
ED has got important documents in the coal scam case. In this regard, ED had applied in the special court of Raipur for interrogating the accused in jail. Accepting this on January 6, the court has given permission for questioning from January 10 to January 16.
Other people may be arrested in coal scam
In the coal scam case, ED has made Bhilai MLA Devendra Yadav, former MLA Chandradev Rai, Congress leader RP Singh, Vinod Tiwari, Ram Gopal Aggarwal accused. Investigation in relation to which is also going on. Let us tell you that an anticipatory bail petition was filed in the special court on behalf of Devendra Yadav.
Rejecting this, the court has also issued bailable warrant against 4 people including Devendra. Soon other people related to the coal scam case may be arrested. 7 accused were present in the court, 3 were absent.
The accused in jail related to the coal scam case were scheduled to appear on January 6. Except 3, the remaining 7 accused appeared in the court. Soumya Chaurasia, Ranu Sahu and Nikhil Chandrakar had expressed their inability to come to the court after applying for medical. Suryakant Tiwari, Sunil Aggarwal, Shiv Shankar Nag, Sameer Bishnoi, Laxmikant Tiwari, Deepak Tank and Rajesh Chaudhary were present in the court.
Scam worth Rs 221 crore revealed in ED investigation
ED had exposed coal levy scam worth Rs 540 crore in Chhattisgarh. In the investigation of coal scam, a scam of Rs 221 crore has come to light so far, only that amount has been attached. Even now ED is investigating the scam.
