Former Managing Director of Nagrik Aapurti Nigam (NAN), Indian Administrative Services officer and one of the accused in the Public Distribution System (PDS) scam, Dr AniL Tuteja was granted anticipatory bail in the multi-crore scam by Chhattisgarh High Court, Bilaspur on Monday.

Advocate of Tuteja, Piyush Bhatia, informed media persons in Raipur that the Court of Justice R.P. Sharma granted his client the bail on Monday.

“The court granted the bail on the ground that the FIR was not filed against Tuteja and only supplementary charge-sheet was filed against him and that too after the long period of two and half years”, he said.

The alleged Rs 36000 crore- PDS scam was exposed in February 2015 when ACB and EOW sleuths conducted simultaneous raids at 25 premises of Chhattisgarh State Civil Supplies Corporation Limited and residences of its officials.

During the raid, a 113-page diary (in which names of beneficiaries of the scam were mentioned) was allegedly recovered.

The Congress party which was then in opposition had alleged that the content of only six pages of the diary was covered in the probe while remaining 107 pages were skipped.

The Congress also alleged that former chief minister Raman Singh and his family members and even a cook of him is involved in the scam as per the diary recovered.

Just days after coming to power, the Congress government formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the alleged financial irregularities in the Chhattisgarh State Civil Supplies Corporation Limited.

EOW’s Chief Inspector General of Police G.P. Singh is heading the SIT which is probing into the matter.

The other members of the SIT are- I Kalyan Elsela, SP, Narayanpur, Manoj Kumar Khilari, ASP, ACB, Raipur, Uneja Khatoon Ansari, ASP, Jashpur, Vishwas Chandrakar, Dy SP, EOW, Anil Bakshi, Dy SP, EOW, Raipur, L S Kashyap, Inspector, CID, Raipur, Brijesh Tiwari,Inspector, ACB, Raipur, Ramakant Sahu, Inspector, ACB, Raipur, Motilal Patel, Inspector, Kanker, Farhan Quereshi, Inspector, EOW, Raipur, N N Chaturvedi, Legal Expert and Retired Deputy Director.