The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached assets worth Rs 61.20 crore of Chaitanya Baghel, the son of former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel, in connection with the agency’s investigation into an alleged liquor scam.

The scam is alleged to have taken place between 2019 and 2022, while the Congress government under Bhupesh Baghel’s leadership was in power. Investigators allege that during this time, a syndicate of senior state bureaucrats, politicians, and Excise Department officials facilitated a “parallel” system of selling liquor that led to a loss of over Rs 2,500 crore to the exchequer.

Chaitanya Baghel’s assets that were seized by the ED include immovable properties in the form of 364 pieces of residential and agricultural land worth Rs 59.96 crore and m

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