RAIPUR: Eleven days after the Supreme Court quashed a money laundering case against retired IAS officer Anil Tuteja and his son Yash in the alleged Rs 2,000 crore liquor scam, Enforcement Directorate picked them up on Saturday evening.
There was no official word from ED at the time of filing this report. The duo were whisked away by ED from the state anti-corruption bureau (ACB) office where they were initially questioned by ACB/EOW regarding FIRs related to the liquor scam.
Tuteja is a 2003-batch IAS officer, who retired from service last year. On April 9, SC quashed a money laundering case against them in the liquor scam probe, stating that the offences they were charged with do not fall under the schedule of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), thus there cannot be any "proceeds of crime" as defined by the Act.
A day later, ED filed a case to "investigate afresh" the scam that is alleged to have involved some top bureaucrats and politicians. ED had initiated PMLA proceedings during the tenure of earlier Congress govt in Chhattisgarh.
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