A court in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday sent former IAS officer Babulal Agrawal to the custody of the Enforcement Directorate till November 12 on money laundering charge in a case linked to corruption and holding disproportionate assets.
A Special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) judge Vivek Kumar Verma announced the sentence, Special Public Prosecutor of ED Saurabh Pandey told The Pioneer over telephone.
A 1988 batch IAS officer, Agrawal was Principal Secretary in the Chhattisgarh government and was also arrested earlier by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on charges of corruption.