Team News Riveting
Raipur, November 2
The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Chhattisgarh cadre, Sameer Vishnoi, had been placed under suspension with effect from October 27.
The 2009-batch IAS officer was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case along with businessman Sunil Agrawal of the Indramani group and Laxmikant Tiwari, uncle of “absconding” businessman Suryakant Tiwari on October 13. The officer along with the other two is presently on a 14 days judicial custody, locked in the Raipur Central Jail.
The state government placed the officer under suspension. The IAS Civil List for Chhattisgarh underlined that Vishnoi was suspended on October 27, two weeks after his arrest.
ED had said in a tweet that it conducted search operations and seized approximately Rs 6.5 crore in the form of unaccounted cash, gold & bullion, etc. Of it, four kg gold and Rs 47 lakh cash was reportedly recovered from the house of the IAS officer.
Vishnoi, an alumnus of IIT Kanpur, is currently posted as the CEO of the Chhattisgarh Infotech Promotion Society. He is also the ex-officio Joint Secretary of Electronics and Information Technology and Director, Geology, and had held the Mining department besides working as MD, Chhattisgarh State Minerals Development Corporation.
The IAS officer’s wife has levelled serious allegations against the ED, claiming the agency had harassed the family members and falsely implicating her husband for political reasons.
