The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Chhattisgarh state civil services official, Chetan Borghariya, on September 11 in connection with a money laundering probe into the alleged irregularities in the 2020 and 2021 Chhattisgarh Public Service Commission (CGPSC) examination, a statement issued by the agency said on Monday.
Borghariya, an additional collector in Chhattisgarh’s Balrampur-Ramanujganj district, was a former Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the Chief Minister’s Office during the previous Bhupesh Baghel-led Congress government. ED added that it also found direct transactions between him and key suspect Utkarsh Chandrakar. The agency said he was produced before a special court in Raipur after his arrest on September 11 and remanded to ED custody for six days.
“Financial investigation revealed cash deposits aggregating to ₹ 66.74 lakh through 170 transactions in the bank account of Chetan Borghariya during the relevant period,” the agency said in its statement.
The money laundering case stems from an case lodged by the state Economic Offences Wing (EOW) over allegations of corruption and exam manipulation. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which later took over the probe from EOW, charge-sheeted former CGPSC chairman Taman Singh Sonwani and others.
