Raipur: The Enforcement Directorate on Monday filed a charge sheet against eight people, including State Administrative Service officer Soumya Chaurasia. It also includes the name of coal businessman Suryakant Tiwari’s mother, his brother and Soumya Chaurasia’s brother.
The ED’s charge sheet also has deatils of the arrests of Shivshankar Nag, Sandeep Kumar Nayak, businessmen Dipesh Tank and Rajesh Chowdhary, who were arrested last week. After completion of the custodial remand period of these accused, they were produced in the court. From where these people have been sent to jail on judicial remand.
Their next hearing will be held on February 14. Meanwhile, in the charge sheet, allegations have also been leveled against coal merchant Suryakant Tiwari’s mother Kailash Tiwari, his brother Rajnikant Tiwari and Saumya Chaurasia’s brother Anurag Chaurasia. ED has interrogated these three persons several times, but they have not been arrested so far.
On October 11, the Enforcement Directorate raided 75 locations of several officers and businessmen in the state. After preliminary investigation and questioning, on October 13, the then CEO of Chhattisgarh Infotech Promotion Society-CHIPS, Sameer Vishnoi, coal merchant Sunil Agarwal and lawyer-businessman Laxmikant Tiwari were arrested in this case. They were sent to jail in judicial custody after being interrogated for 14 days. On October 29, Suryakant Tiwari, another accused in the case, surrendered in the court. Soumya Chaurasia was arrested on 2 December. Four more people have been arrested in the last week.
