The main question before the Court was whether AES Chhattisgarh Energy misrepresented itself as a subsidiary of AES Corporation, USA when it applied to the Ministry of Coal for the allocation of a coal block.
The Supreme Court has rejected a bail plea filed by suspended bureaucrat Saumya Chaurasia, the then Deputy Secretary of former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, in connection with a money-laundering case.
A special court in Raipur has issued notices to two Congress MLAs and seven others accused in a money laundering case related to an alleged coal levy scam. The court has asked the accused to appear before it on October 25. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had filed the second supplementary chargesheet in the case last month, naming 11 persons, including Congress legislators and an IAS officer, as accused.
The Enforcement Directorate conducted searches at the premises of Bhupesh Baghels political advisor and an Officer on Special Duty (OSD), on a day when the Chhattisgarh CMÂ turned 62.
The announcement by ED comes a day after Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel took a jibe at the central agency, saying it has found nothing in the coal levy case and the liquor scam is a cooked-up story.