The Chhattisgarh High Court on Tuesday rejected the interim bail plea of Congress legislator Devendra Singh Yadav in a money laundering case related to an alleged coal levy scam.
Justice Narendra Kumar Vyas delivered the order, ED lawyer Saurabh Pandey said.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had filed the second supplementary chargesheet in the case in the court of 4th Additional District and Sessions Judge Ajay Singh Rajput in August last year naming 11 persons, including Yadav and Chandradev Prasad Rai and IAS officer Ranu Sahu as accused.
The special court had registered the second supplementary chargesheet and issued notices to nine of the 11 accused. Sahu and Nikhil Chandrakar had already been arrested in the case.
Besides legislators Yadav and Rai, Congress leaders RP Singh and Vinod Tiwari are also among the nine accused.
The ED’s investigation relates to the alleged scam in which an illegal levy of Rs 25 per tonne was being extorted for every tonne of coal transported in Chhattisgarh by a cartel involving senior bureaucrats, businessmen, politicians and middlemen.
