The Enforcement Directorate on Monday provisionally attached 51 immovable properties worth Rs 17.48 crore of suspended Deputy Secretary in the Chhattisgarh government and others in the multi-crore coal scam, a lawyer said.
Some of the properties are said to belong to Saumya Chaurasia, ED lawyer Saurabh Pandey said. Now, the total value of attached properties in the case stands at about Rs 170 crore.
The ED investigation relates to 'a scam in which illegal levy of Rs 25 was extorted on every tonne of coal transported in Chhattisgarh by a cartel involving senior bureaucrats, businessmen, politicians and middlemen, the agency has said.
Nine people including Chaurasia have been arrested in the case.
