Tainted babus contacted Chhattisgarh HC choose: ED to SC | India Information

NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) has informed Supreme Courtroom that Anil Kumar Tuteja and Alok Shukla, two senior bureaucrats who’re accused in Chhattisgarh’s Nagrik Apurti Nigam (PDS) rip-off, “had been in contact with the excessive courtroom choose who granted bail to Shukla” in October 2019. The then advocate common, Satish Chandra Verma, had been liaisoning between the 2 and the choose, ED has claimed.
Although ED’s August 1 affidavit doesn’t identify the choose in query, annexures containing WhatsApp chat particulars present he was Justice Arvind Kumar Chandel, with ED stating he was approached by his brother and former state chief secretary Ajay Singh.Chandel was transferred to Patna HC this 12 months.

ED has claimed the 2 bureaucrats within the then Baghel-led Congress govt had been tampering with proof to dilute the case in opposition to them.
Sufficient proof to start out probe into bid to derail trial: ED
The accused by the then advocate common had been in contact with the choose of Chhattisgarh HC who had granted anticipatory bail to Shukla on October 16, 2019. Tuteja was in contact with the choose by (then) AG Satish Chandra Verma as is clear from WhatsApp messages of July 31 and Aug 11 of 2019, Enforcement Directorate (ED) stated.
“WhatsApp messages trade has revealed that biodata of the daughter and son-in-law of the choose had been despatched to Tuteja for beneficial motion by then AG who has been liasoning between the choose and each the prime accused Tuteja and Shukla,” it added.
“Tuteja and Shukla had been (additionally) in contact with the choose’s brother (Ajay Singh) relating to the matter of anticipatory bail of accused Shukla, which was pending earlier than the bench of the ju-dge. As quickly as each accused had been granted bail on Oct 16, 2019, the choose’s brother was faraway from the put up of chief secretary and appointed as vice-chairman, Planning Fee, on Nov 1, 2019,” ED stated.
“The accused individuals had been concerned in sharing and modification of the draft assertion of co-accused Shiv Shankar Bhatt to dilute the position of different prime accused within the scheduled offence,” it added.
“Evaluation of WhatsApp chat of October 4 to Oct 16 of 2019 between Tuteja, Shukla after which advocate common reveal the position of the brother of the choose and the then ADG Financial Offences Wing-Anti-Corruption Bureau, Raipur, who was in command of defending the scheduled offence, in diluting the case in opposition to each the accused as a way to acquit each the accused from the fees of corruption,” the ED stated.
The company claimed that a number of paragraphs from the state EOW’s report on the rip-off had been eliminated on the behest of Tuteja and Shukla to guard the curiosity of the prime accused and later the identical amended report was positioned earlier than the HC.
ED stated, “There may be sufficient proof to provoke investigation by an unbiased company as regards to the involvement and a concerted effort to derail the trial and tamper with the proof by the accused individuals in connivance with extremely positioned constitutional state officers.”