Chhattisgarh IAS officers, Raipur mayor's brother booked in UP over ED's liquor 'scam' probe

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IAS officers, and the elder brother of Raipur Mayor Aijaz Dhebar have been booked on charges of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy by the police in Greater Noida in connection with an ED probe into an alleged liquor scam in the central state, officials said on Monday. The FIR was lodged at the Kasna police station on Sunday on a complaint from the Raipur-based deputy director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is probing the alleged Rs 2,000-crore scam in the Chhattisgarh excise department. Those named as accused in the case are Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Anil Tuteja, Arunpati Tripathi, an Indian Telecom Service (ITS) officer and a special secretary in the excise department, IAS officer and Excise Commissioner Niranjan Das, businessman Vidhu Gupta and Anwar Dhebar, the elder brother of Raipur Mayor and Congress leader Aijaz Dhebar, according to the FIR. Tripathi, the former managing director of the Chhattisgarh State Marketing Corporation Limited (CSMCL), and Anwar Dhebar were arrested by the federal agency in the case earlier. The Supreme Court asked the ED on July 18 to «stay their hand in all manner» in the alleged liquor scam-linked money-laundering probe.

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The complainant said in the police FIR that the ED is investigating a case linked to the liquor «scam» in Chhattisgarh under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and it was found out that a Noida-based company — Prizm Holography Security Films Private Limited — was illegally granted a tender to supply holograms to the state excise department. «The company was not eligible to participate in the tender