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The agency is investigating an alleged coal charge and an alcohol scam. (File: PTI)
Its headquarters were also raided earlier and its assets seized by the Emergency Management Department as part of its investigation into the alleged coal tax case.
Officials said the Enforcement Directorate on Saturday arrested IAS officer Ranu Sahu in Chhattisgarh, a day after the central agency conducted raids on its headquarters in connection with a money laundering case.
“Sahu has been arrested in connection with an alleged case of coal taxes and has been brought to a hearing in cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) here to demand custody,” said ED Solicitor Saurabh Pandey.
She is the second female IAS officer in the state to be arrested in the case. Sahu, Chhattisgarh IAS cadre employee for the group of 2010, is currently appointed as Director of the State Department of Agriculture.
Prior to this position, she served as collector for the coal-rich provinces of Korba and Raigarh.
The emergency unit raided her home in Raipur on Friday. Its headquarters had also been raided earlier and its assets seized by the Emergency Management Department as part of its investigation into the alleged coal tax case.
This is the second IAS officer in the state who has been arrested in the case. Sameer Vishnoi, an IAS officer from the Class of 2009, was arrested last year.
The agency had been investigating allegations of coal taxes and liquor fraud in the state for which it had arrested some prominent bureaucrats, except for politicians and their associates.
(This story was not edited by the News18 staff and was published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI)
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