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XNew Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought responses of the Centre, CBI, ED and the Chhattisgarh government on a plea of former IAS officer Anil Tuteja, arrested in liquor scam cases, seeking protection from further coercive action in as many as 11 FIRs registered by multiple investigating agencies.

A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and justices Ujjal Bhuyan and N K Singh took note of the submissions of lawyers, Arshdeep Singh Khurana and Malak Bhatt, on behalf of the former IAS officer, and sought the responses of the probe agencies.

Besides the Directorate of Enforcement and the CBI, Tuteja, who was allegedly close to the earlier Congress-led Chhattisgarh government, has made the state anti-corruption Bureau, the Union Ministry of Finance and the Income Tax Dep

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