A special PMLA Court in Raipur on Thursday sent IAS Sameer Vishnoi, businessman Sunil Agrawal and two others to 14 days judicial custody remand (JCR) in connection with alleged money laundering case linked to coal and mining in Chhattisgarh.

The Court of 4th Additional District and Sessions Judge Raipur (Special Court of PMLA) Ajay Singh Rajput today sent IAS Sameer Vishnoi, businessman Sunil Agrawal and Laxmikant Tiwari, uncle of absconding businessman Suryakant Tiwari, to judicial custody till November 10. Vishnoi and two others were produced in the Court on the expiry of their ED custody.

Earlier, the accused trio was produced before the special court on October 13 and the custody of IAS officer as well as two others was given to ED for eight days. They were produced in the court on the expiry of their custody on October 21 and the custody was extended for six days. Notably, cash amounting to Rs 47 lakh, 4 kilogram of gold and diamond were recovered by ED from the premise of Sameer Vishnoi during a raid. Earlier while speaking to the media, advocate Vijay Agrawal, who appeared in the court for businessman Sunil Agrawal, alleged, ‘we have argued that ED procedure is illegal and we have also pointed out that they were supposed to produce my client within 24 hours but they have illegally detained him. They picked him on October 11 and produced him on October 13, so the constitutional rights of my client have been violated’. Moreover, all the search and other proceedings of the ED are forged and anti-dated’, Agrawal alleged.