RAIPUR: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday launched fresh raids at the premises of former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel's son Chaitanya Baghel in connection with a money laundering probe against him, linked to an alleged liquor scam.
The ED is searching Chaitanya Baghel's house in Bhilai town, where he lives with his father Bhupesh Baghel, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) based on receipt of fresh evidence in the case, officials said on Friday.
As the ED went about its work at Chaitanya Baghel's house, ex-CM Bhupesh Baghel’s office in a post on his official X handle linked the timing of the central agency’s action to a political development, claiming that the sleuths were sent just hours before the Congress was set to raise the issue of tree felling in Raigarh on the last day of the Monsoon Session of the Chhattisgarh legislative Assembly.