{"id":552029,"date":"2023-02-02T10:40:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T05:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=552029"},"modified":"2023-02-02T11:30:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T06:00:18","slug":"ed-says-ex-officer-in-baghel-office-link-in-coal-levy-scam-she-denies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ed-says-ex-officer-in-baghel-office-link-in-coal-levy-scam-she-denies\/","title":{"rendered":"ED says ex-officer in Baghel office \u2018link\u2019 in coal levy scam; she denies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A state civil services officer, then engaged as deputy secretary to Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, was the alleged \u201ckey person\u201d in creating the syndicate led by Suryakant Tiwari and \u201cdirectly acquired proceeds of crime to an extent of more than Rs 30 crore\u201d, according to the prosecution complaint (chargesheet) filed on Monday by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in the coal levy case.<\/p>\n<p>The accused officer, Saumya Chaurasia, has denied the charge.<\/p>\n<p>Her lawyer, Faizal Rizvi, told The Indian Express, \u201cThere is no evidence against my client. This is a politically motivated case to destabilise the (Congress-led) Chhattisgarh government. We will apply for her bail in a week\u2019s time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A state civil services officer, then engaged as deputy secretary to Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, was the alleged \u201ckey person\u201d in creating the syndicate led by Suryakant Tiwari and \u201cdirectly acquired proceeds of crime to an extent of more than Rs 30 crore\u201d, according to the prosecution complaint (chargesheet) filed on Monday by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in the coal levy case. The accused officer, Saumya Chaurasia, has denied the charge. Her lawyer, Faizal Rizvi, told The Indian Express, \u201cThere is no evidence against my client. This is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}