Retired IAS officer Anil Tuteja was sent to one-day judicial remand

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Updated: April 22, 2024 03:51 IST

Raipur (Chhattisgarh) (India), April 22 (ANI): Retired IAS officer Anil Tuteja was on Sunday remanded to the custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case related to the alleged Rs 2,000 crore liquor scam in the state .
Tuteja was taken into custody under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and produced before the court of 7th Civil Judge Class II Raipur and JMFC Raipur, Kumari Ranju Vaishnav, and was granted judicial remand for one day.
Advocate Sourabh Pandey, representing the ED, said they had sufficient grounds to believe that former Chhattisgarh-based IAS officer Anil Tuteja had committed an offense under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act after the interrogation of his son on Saturday and subsequently arrested him.
Sourabh Pandey told reporters: “…Yesterday (Saturday) after questioning Anil Tuteja’s son Yash Tuteja, we found that we had sufficient grounds to believe that he has committed an offense under the Money Laundering Act… We arrested Anil Tuteja today (Sunday), and he was produced before the magistrate.

“We had asked for a fourteen-day pre-trial detention. But we have obtained a one-day judicial remand of Anil Tuteja…,” he further added.
The Enforcement Directorate has arrested former IAS officer Anil Tuteja in a money laundering prevention case related to an alleged liquor racket. The action was taken by the ED’s regional office in Chhattisgarh. This case was recently taken over by the investigation agency.
The ED had filed a fresh money laundering case in the alleged liquor scam case after the Supreme Court recently quashed its earlier FIR based on a complaint by the Income Tax department.
Earlier, the Supreme Court quashed a money laundering case against accused in a case related to the Chhattisgarh liquor scam, noting that the complaint was based on an IT Act violation, which is not a scheduled offense under the PMLA.
The Supreme Court ruled that since there is a predicate offense, there can be no proceeds of crime and there is also no money laundering. (ANI)