The Supreme Court has restrained the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Uttar Pradesh government from proceeding with a fresh case against accused in an alleged liquor syndicate racket in Chhattisgarh. The court stated that the ED cannot act as a law unto itself and the agency or the police cannot take any coercive steps against the accused named in the first information report (FIR). The court also directed that the petitioners in the case would not be arrested or subjected to any other coercive steps. | Latest News India
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Three Chhattisgarh government officials, including two IAS officers, and a businessman 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. The FIR was lodged on a complaint from the Raipur-based deputy director of the Enforcement Directorate.