The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Saturday arrested IAS officer Ranu Sahu in connection with the alleged coal levy scam.
Ms. Sahu — a Chhattisgarh-cadre IAS officer of the 2010 batch who is currently posted as the Director of the State Agriculture Department — is accused of money laundering and receiving kickbacks, Saurabh Kumar Pande, ED’s counsel, said. These allegations were refuted by her lawyer, Faisal Rizvi.
The development was preceded by raids at her premises in Raipur. The ED calls it “a massive scam in which an illegal levy of ₹25 was being extorted for every tonne of coal transported in Chhattisgarh by a cartel involving senior bureaucrats, businessmen, politicians and middlemen”.
