Action intensified after ED’s FIR, interrogation to begin soon
Raipur: Intensifying the action in the state’s much-discussed liquor scam worth crores, the ACB-EOW is preparing to take into custody and interrogate many big liquor traders of the state, people involved in its transportation, security and related work in the next one week. In the FIR lodged regarding the scam of about Rs 2100 crore, apart from the excise officers, there are more than three dozen names, who are somehow connected with the liquor business, or were politically influential in the previous government. An FIR was lodged in ACB-EOW in January by the Deputy Director of ED, which includes the names of almost all the big people associated with the business along with the state’s big distilleries Chhattisgarh, Welcome and Kedia. There are indications from ACB-EOW that now all of them will be called one by one.
The FIR lodged in ACB names Anwar Dhebar’s brother Akhtar Dhebar, Sapphire Steel owners Umair Dhebar and Junaid Dhebar and Vijay Bhatia, who is considered close to the former CM. Arvind Singh has been arrested. Apart from these, the names of Ashish Saurabh Kedia, Chhattisgarh Distilleries, Bhatia Wines and Merchants, Welcome Distilleries, Anurag Dwivedi, Amit Singh, Navneet Gupta, Pinky Singh, Vikas Agarwal Subu, Trilok Singh Dhillon, Nitesh Purohit, Abhishek Singh, Yash Purohit, Manish Mishra, Sanjay Kumar Mishra, Atul Kumar Singh, Mukesh Manchanda, Vijay Bhatia, Siddharth Singhania, Bachharaj Lohia, M/s Alert Commando, Prime One Work Force, Amit Mittal, Uday Rao, Laxminarayan Bansal, Vidhu Gupta, Deepak Duari, Dipen Chawla, Prime Developers, A Dhebar Buildcon, AJS Agrotech, Jagdamba Enterprises and Ashok Singh, Sumit Malo, Ravi Bajaj and Vikas Agarwal’s associates have been mentioned in the FIR. The role of all these people in the liquor scam has been mentioned.