Chhattisgarh Chief Minister, Others Weakened Scam Case Against 2 Officers, Says Probe Agency
NDTV
Chhattisgarh High Court last year granted anticipatory bail to the two IAS officers in the PDS scam case.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has told the Supreme Court that investigation has revealed that Chhattisgarh Chief Minister, members of the Special Investigation Team (SIT), and a top law officer have weakened the case against two senior IAS officers accused of corruption in the multi-crore Public Distribution System (PDS) scam.
The ED has sought cancellation of anticipatory bail granted to the two IAS officers and said the Chhattisgarh High Court failed to consider that the Anti-Corruption Bureau, Economic Offences Wing made a recovery of more than Rs 3 crore in cash after a raid was conducted on State Public Distribution Corporation, Raipur.
The probe agency, which has challenged the high court order, submitted that the message conversations found in the mobile phone seized by the Income Tax Department "shockingly revealed" both the main accused Anil Kumar Tuteja and Alok Shukla (senior IAS officers facing criminal prosecution in Scheduled Offences of corruption), in connivance with successive chiefs of the prosecuting agency namely EOW-ACB, Chhattisgarh, one very senior law officer in the High Court of Chhattisgarh, members of the SIT and with the intervention of the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, have weakened the offence of corruption against them.
