The Earnings Tax Division raided the residence of Congress chief and former Minister of Chhattisgarh, Amarjeet Bhagat, on Wednesday.
The searches by a joint staff from Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh started at his home in Ambikapur at round 6 am as we speak and are at present underway.
Over 10 officers of the central company reached the previous Minister’s residence and they’re checking paperwork inside the home.
Heavy safety has been deployed outdoors Bhagat’s home, information company ANI reported.
Bhagat was the Cupboard Minister for tradition, planning, economics and statistics and meals and civil provides within the earlier Bhupesh Baghel authorities.
The Earnings Tax officers haven’t divulged the explanations behind as we speak’s motion, however he was one of many 35 accused named in an FIR lodged by the state’s Financial Offences Wing/Anti-Corruption Bureau in an alleged coal levy rip-off, based mostly on a grievance of the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The ED had launched a probe into the rip-off throughout the earlier Congress authorities.