Massive Land Seizure in Madhya Pradesh's Fake Liquor Scam

The Enforcement Directorate has seized properties worth Rs 70 crore across Madhya Pradesh as part of investigations into a fake liquor challan scam. This scheme allegedly allowed operatives to fraudulently profit by manipulating treasury challans, leading to significant losses for the state's treasury.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached properties worth Rs 70 crore across the Madhya Pradesh cities of Indore, Mandsaur, and Khargone, amid a crackdown on a fake liquor challan scam.

This step follows a provisional order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, highlighting a scheme where operatives illicitly manipulated treasury challans to secure undue profits while inflicting losses on the state treasury.

According to the ED, liquor contractors used nominal treasury challans and later inflated them to obtain illegal licenses and NO-Cs, defrauding the state. Two arrests have been made, rooted in an FIR from Indore's Raoji police station.

(With inputs from agencies.)