Raipur, May 23: Court remanded suspended IAS officer Ranu Sahu and former deputy secretary in Chief Minister’s Office, Soumya Chaurasia in a four-day custody of the state’s Anti Corruption Bureau/Economic Offences Wing in a case linked to the alleged coal levy scam.
The two were arrested in the past by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the money-laundering linked alleged coal levy scam unearthed during the previous Congress government in the state.
While Sahu, a Chhattisgarh-cadre IAS officer of the 2010 batch, was arrested by the ED in July last year, Chaurasia was held in December 2022. Since then the two were in jail.
Sahu and Chaurasia were arrested by the ACB/EOW on Thursday and produced in the court of Additional District and Sessions Judge & had demanded her custody till June 5 but the court has granted it till May 27.
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