Raipur: Ed informed a special court that Chaitanya Bagel, son of Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Bagel, raised Rs 16.7 crore through shell firms and Rs 2,100 crore liquor scam and raised Rs 16.7 crore through real estate deals tied to scam. Chaitanya was arrested on 18 July (his 38th birthday) after discoveries at his house under the prevention of the Money Laundering Act.A PMLA court gave a five -day remand in Raipur. Congress officials responded on 22 July with a call for the statewide “Arythic Maskandi”. It has planned road barriers, protests and mineral transport disruptions in Chhattisgarh. The protest is aligned with Chaitanya’s last day of ad pricing and their prescribed production before the PMLA court.According to Ed’s remand report, Chaitanya played “central and active role” in robbing illegal income from a liquor syndicate, allegedly manipulated to Chhattisgarh’s producing system from 2019 to 2022. In a transaction, a project was fan of Rs 5 crore from Sahli Jewelers in Vitathal Development. While the cost of the project was officially declared as Rs 7.14 crore, the ED estimates that the actual expenditure is estimated between Rs 13 crore and Rs 15 crore – mostly in cash.Major witness Pappu Bansal told Ed that only Rs 2.62 crore was recorded in payment to the contractor, while Rs 4.2 crore was allegedly paid by books. On October 19, 2020, liquor businessman Trilok Singh Dhillon allegedly paid Rs 5 crore for 19 flats in the same project under employee names.CM Vishnu Dev Sai defended Ed’s works. “Ed doesn’t work randomly. It knows what it is doing,” he said on Saturday. While the former-CM Bagel accused the center of Vendetta politics. He said, “He raided me during the budget session. Now, after Mahant’s stay notice on Hasadeo Forest Felling, he targeted my son,” he said. “I will not break. Let them go to jail – he’s strong.”Baghel accused a “selective pattern” of enforcement: “Himant Biswa Sarma, or Suvendu Officer, or Ajit Pawar is nothing.Priyanka says Priyanka says to crush the voice of the people, to bury the truth, the son of the former-CMOn Saturday, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of Congress claimed that as Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel was going to raise the issue of “gifting” all the forests of the government, industrialist Adani in the assembly, the government pressurized his son to bury the truth. The public has understood that the purpose of these strategies under the BJP is to crush the voice of the people, but it will not be successful, he said. “The forests are being destroyed in disregard of the Pesa Act and NGT instructions. Bagel was going to raise the issue in the assembly. To stop them, Ed raided his house in the morning and arrested his son. In the last 11 years, in the last 11 years, the country has well understood that these are ways to suppress protests.
