Liquor Scam: Trouble mounted for many influencers including Tuteja and Dhebar in liquor scam, court rejects 13 petitions – Liquor scam trouble mounted for many influencers including Tuteja and Dhebar, court rejects 13 petitions

Raipur: ED and ACB-EOW are taking legal action by registering a case against the accused in the much-talked-about liquor scam in the state. The accused arrested in the case filed petitions against them before the Bilaspur High Court, on which the High Court, while delivering its verdict today, dismissed all the 13 petitions. The High Court has also set aside the earlier order of interim relief. The Chhattisgarh High Court accepted that ED and ACB-EOW registered the FIR only on the basis of evidence. Former IAS Anil Tuteja, his son Yash Tuteja, Anwar Dhebar, Vidhu Gupta and Nidesh Purohit have been booked by ACB and EOW. The liquor scam has been registered against Niranjan Das and AP Tripathi. All the accused had filed separate petitions before the High Court to quash the FIR registered against them. The High Court had reserved its decision after hearing all parties on July 10, and a decision was made today.

Hearing held in the dock of the President of the Supreme Court

These petitions were heard by the bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Ravindra Aggarwal in the High Court. Additional Advocate General Vivek Sharma was questioned on behalf of the State. Six petitions were filed before the High Court against ED and seven petitions against EOW-ACB. In these petitions, the proceedings carried out by the ED in the liquor scam case and the FIR filed by the EOW-ACB were challenged and their dismissal was sought. During the hearing of one of these petitions, the High Court had granted interim relief to Anil Tuteja, which has now been set aside.

According to Additional Advocate General Vivek Sharma, Anwar Dhebar, using his influence in the Congress government, had appointed AP Tripathi as the managing director of CSMCL. Following this, a scam of Rs 2,161 crore was committed through a syndicate of officials, businessmen and politically influential people.

ED, which is investigating the liquor scam in Chhattisgarh, has filed an FIR with ACB. In the registered FIR, it has been said that a scam of over two billion rupees has taken place. ED has found in its investigation that during the tenure of the then Bhupesh Sarkar, the scam was carried out through the illegal syndicate of IAS officer Anil Tuteja, Excise Department MD AP Tripathi and businessman Anwar Dhebar. According to the ACB, from 2019 to 2022, illegal liquor was sold in government liquor shops with duplicate holograms due to which the government suffered a loss of crores in revenue.

The arrest took place in May.

While investigating the liquor scam, ED first arrested Anwar Dhebar in the early week of May. According to ED, Anwar Dhebar generated illegal money worth Rs 2,000 crore from the liquor business between 2019 and 2022. He passed it on in Dubai through his associate Vikas Aggarwal. ED said something very important that Anwar distributed the money as per percentage to the people associated with him and gave the remaining amount to his political masters. Following this, Excise Department officer AP Tripathi, businessman Trilok Dhillon, Nitesh Purohit and Arvind Singh were also arrested in this case.
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During questioning by the Uttar Pradesh STF, Anwar Dhebar and AP Tripathi said that the biggest beneficiaries of this scam were the liquor manufacturing companies. Noida-based Vidhu company M/s Prism Holography Security Films Private Limited got the tender to manufacture holograms. Duplicate holograms were made out of it and sent to distilleries. Thereafter these holograms were used in illegal liquor. ED and EOW have also charged the operators of the distilleries involved and their related persons. However, no one has been arrested yet. After today’s decision of the High Court, it is expected that action may soon be taken against the liquor manufacturing companies in the fake hologram case.