Raipur : EOW has got the remand of Ranu Sahu and Saumya Chaurasia in the coal scam case in Chhattisgarh. The EOW team reached Raipur Special Court with both of them on production warrant. Here the team had sought 15 days remand, however, the court has granted remand of only 5 days.
EOW will now interrogate both of them in the coal scam case till May 27. Earlier, suspended IAS Ranu Sahu and Saumya Chaurasia were lodged in Raipur Central Jail. On Thursday, the court of Judge Atul Srivastava handed over the remand of both to EOW.
Defense said – no concrete facts for remand
Defense lawyer Faizal Rizvi said that EOW has filed an application after the arrest, they have demanded that remand be given till June 5. We have opposed this. We have said that, one has got bail in the ED case and Ranu Sahu’s bail is in the Supreme Court.
At the same time, Saumya Chaurasia’s bail is also to be heard in the High Court, due to which she is being arrested again. No concrete facts have been presented to seek remand. Interrogation has already been done for 3 days, so we have objected to the remand.
Interrogation has also been done in jail before.
Earlier also, the special court has given permission for interrogation for 5 days and then for 3 days. Then the team interrogated in Raipur Central Jail from 29 March to 2 April and then from 4 to 7 April.
Suspended IAS Sameer Vishnoi, Shivshankar Nag and Suryakant Tiwari, who are in jail, have already been interrogated in this case.
On the ED report in the coal scam case in Chhattisgarh, ACB-EOW has registered a named FIR against 36 people including two former ministers, MLAs. At the same time, the ACB team has started investigation in this case.
What has happened so far in the coal scam case
ED has so far arrested 11 people in this case including businessman Suryakant Tiwari, Saumya Chaurasia, an officer working in the secretariat of former Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, IAS Sameer Vishnoi. Property worth 222 crores has been attached and investigation of this entire case is going on.
The Enforcement Directorate had lodged a complaint with the ACB, considering it a major economic crime in the state apart from money laundering.
FIR against these people in coal case.
Kawasi Lakhma, MLA and former Excise Minister
Devendra Yadav, MLA
Amarjit Bhagat, former Food Minister
Brihaspat Singh, former MLA
Gulab Kamro, former MLA
Shishupal Sori, former MLA
Chandradev Prasad Rai, former MLA
UD Minj, former MLA
Sameer Vishnoi, suspended IAS
Ranu Sahu, suspended IAS
Saumya Chaurasia, former Deputy Secretary, CM Office
Sandeep Kumar Nayak, Assistant Mineral Officer
Shivshankar Nag, Mineral Officer
Suryakant Tiwari, coal trader
Manish Upadhyay
Roshan Kumar Singh
Nikhil Chandrakar
Rahul Singh
Parikh Kurein
Moinuddin Qureshi
Virendra Jaiswal
Rajinikant Tiwari
Hemant Jaiswal
Joginder Singh
Navneet Tiwari
Deepesh Tank
Devendra Dadsena
Rahul Mishra
Ram Gopal Agarwal, then Treasurer, Congress
Ram Pratap Singh, then Spokesperson, Congress
Vinod Tiwari, PEP
Idrish Gandhi, PEP
Sunil Kumar Agarwal
Jai
Chandraprakash Jaiswal
Laxmikant Tiwari
Understand what is the coal and liquor scam?
ED team is investigating the coal and liquor scam in Chhattisgarh. It is more than Rs 2500 crore. Many IAS officers have been caught in this. Apart from this, many businessmen are also in jail. Now former ministers are also seen getting trapped in this.
Apart from this, Congress leaders and some businessmen were also under the purview of ED’s investigation. These people have been questioned and some documents were also seized from their houses. ED has registered a case of illegal coal transportation worth 540 crores last year.
There is an allegation of charging a commission of Rs 25 per ton from coal agencies in coal transportation. This recovery was done by a syndicate, FIR has been filed in the name of people of the syndicate.