Raipur. The scam of the famous coal scam of the tenure of the previous Bhupesh Baghel government is increasing. The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Friday presented a supplementary challan against nine and the accused involved in the coal scam in the special court. Also read: Sukma Naxal encounter update: Security forces achieved great success, bodies of 16 Naxalites recovered, large quantity of weapons and explosive material seized
The supplementary invoice included former Congress treasurer Ram Gopal Agarwal and IAS Jayaprakash Maurya, husband of suspended IAS Ranu Sahu, IAS Jayaprakash Maurya, coal firm owner Joginder Singh, Sheikh Moinuddin, Hemant Jaiswal, Virendra Jaiswal, Advocate Piyush Bhatia, Parikh Kurre and Rahul.
In the illegal coal levy case, ED has already arrested former Korba’s former Collector Ranu Sahu, suspended IAS Sameer Bishnoi, Deputy Secretary of former CM Bhupesh Baghel, Soumya Chaurasia, coal businessman Suryakant Tiwari, Sunil Aggarwal, coal businessman Hemant Jaiswal and Korba resident of Korba have arrested about 20 accused.
What is coal scam
In Chhattisgarh, the case of levy recovery in the alleged coal scam case of Rs 500 crore was reported in ED’s raid. It is alleged that the permits received online to recover from coal traders during coal transport were made offline. IAS Sameer Bishnoi, the then director of the Department of Minerals, issued an order on 15 July 2020 for this. For this, recovery was done by making syndicate. Suryakant Tiwari was considered the mastermind of the entire scam.