The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Friday stated that it has provisionally attached properties worth approximately ₹205.49 crore in the ongoing investigation of liquor scam in Chhattisgarh.
The action follows the registration of a fresh ECIR in connection with the liquor scam which, according to ED’s claim, cost the State exchequer ₹2,161 crores during the tenure of the previous Congress government. The second ECIR was registered on April 11, three days after the Supreme Court quashed the first ECIR which was based on a criminal complaint filed by the Income Tax department before the Tees Hazari Court in New Delhi. The second FIR has been registered on the basis of an FIR registered by Chhattisgarh’s Economic Offences Wing and Anti-Corruption Bureau (EOW-ACB) this January.
Also read | Congress says the BJP and the ED peddled ‘shameless lies’ about the liquor scam in Chhattisgarh
