Team News Riveting
Raipur, August 4
A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Raipur on Friday extended the judicial remand of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Ranu Sahu for another fortnight.
Sahu is an IAS officer of 2010-batch in Chhattisgarh. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had arrested her on July 22 in connection with her involvement in the alleged coal scam in Chhattisgarh. The state government has suspended the IAS officer.
After three days custodial remand, Sahu was sent to 10 days judicial custody on July 25. She was produced before the Special PMLA court of Ajay Singh Rajput on Friday. The special court ordered to send the IAS officer to jail for another 14 days before the case would come up for next hearing on August 18.
Sahu is the second IAS officer arrested by the ED in Chhattisgarh. Earlier, the ED had arrested Sameer Vishnoi in October 2023 in connection with the coal levy scam. The 2009-batch IAS officer had allegedly changed the norms that facilitated a group to collect illegal levy from the coal transporters.
