Team News Riveting
Raipur, July 25
A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Raipur on Tuesday sent Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Ranu Sahu to judicial remand till August 4.
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 officer was interrogated three times before the economic intelligence agency arrested her on Saturday.
The officer was sent to three days custodial remand of ED for further interrogation. On Tuesday, she was produced before the Special PMLA court of Ajay Singh Rajput after the custodial remand concluded. According to legal sources, the ED did not seek further custodial remand citing the interrogation had been completed.
The central agency sought 14 days judicial remand but the special court ordered to send the IAS officer to jail for 10 days before the case would come up for next hearing on August 4.
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.
