Chaitanya Baghel, son of former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel was on Wednesday arrested by Economic Offences Wing/Anti-Corruption Bureau (EOW/ACB) in the alleged liquor scam.

Chaitanya had been in judicial custody since his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate on July 18 in the same scam.

On Wednesday, Chaitanya and one Dipendra Chavda were arrested and produced before a special ACB court in Raipur that sent them to EOW/ACB custody until October 6.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is probing the money laundering aspect of the scam, while the EOW/ACB is looking into the criminal aspect and had registered an FIR in 2024 for cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy. The state agency has pegged the worth of the scam at Rs 3,200 crore.

Earlier this month, the ED filed a p

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