Achi news desk-
Coal scam case…brother of suspended IAS Rano Sahu in custody
The EOW team arrested the brother of suspended IAS Rano Sahu in the Chhattisgarh coal scam case. It is said that the EOW officers caught Piyush while he was running away from home. During this period, a team of about 7-8 people of EOW was present.
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According to the information, the EOW team arrested Piyush from Panduka village. The villagers say that an unknown person kept watch in the village for many days. When Piyush arrived home on Friday, suddenly within 1-2 hours 7-8 people arrived in a car and surrounded the house.
EOW arrested Piyush Sahu from Gariaband.
The EOW team continued to operate the fields
According to the information received from the local residents, as soon as Piush was informed of this, he began to escape from the house by jumping over the wall from the back of the house. During this period, the EOW team kept Piyush running from field to field for about half an hour. After the chase, the EWO team nabbed Piyush around 5:00 p.m.
Piyush did not appear even after notification
It was reported that EOW sent a notice to Piush to appear for investigation, but Piush did not continuously respond to this notice. After that EOW caught him with planning. The EOW team left for Raipur after taking Piyush Sahu into custody.
Rano Sahu was earlier sent to jail on Thursday, after the hearing, the court granted custody to the EOW.
EOW got Rano Sahu’s arrest on Thursday itself.
EOW got the arrest of Rano Sahu and Soumya Chaurasia in the coal scam case. The EOW team arrived at the Riphor Special Court with both of them under production warrant. Here the team asked for 15 days of detention. However, only 4 days of detention were received from the court.
EOW will now interrogate both of them in the coal scam case till May 27. Earlier, suspended IAS Ranu Sahu and Soumya Chaurasia were suspended in Raipur Central Jail. On Thursday, Justice Atul Srivastava’s court transferred the custody of both to the EOW. Read the full news..
Understand what a coal scam is
- ED unearthed coal levy scam worth Rs 540 crore after investigation in Chhattisgarh. Besides IAS Ranu Sahu, IAS Sameer Vishnoi, Soumya Chaurasia, JD Mining SS Nag and businessman Suryakant Tiwari were arrested.
- Apart from this, Congress leaders and some businessmen were also under the scanner of ED. These people were interrogated and some of the documents were also seized from their homes. ED registered a case of illegal transportation of coal worth Rs 540 crore last year.
- There is an allegation of charging a commission of Rs 25 per tonne from coal agencies in transporting coal. This extortion syndicate used to do this, FIR was lodged in the name of the syndicate people only.
