A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) Court here on Tuesday sent jailed IAS officer Ranu Sahu and another officer to 14 days judicial remand in the alleged District Mineral Fund (DMF) scam in Chhattisgarh. Sahu is among 17 accused who are already in jail in an alleged money laundering case. PMLA Special judge Atul Shrivastava sent them to jail till November 5. The two officers were produced before the court on the expiry of their Enforcement Directorate (ED) custodial remand. Sahu, a 2010 batch IAS officer, and Maya Varier, then Assistant Commissioner, Tribal Development Department at Korba, were nabbed on October 17 and 15 respectively. The ED initiated investigation on the basis of three FIRs registered by Chhattisgarh Police for siphoning money from the exchequer by DMF contractors in collusion with officials of the state government and political executives. This case is related to corruption and misuse of funds from the DMF in Chhattisgarh. Sahu was the district collector of Korba between May 2021 and June 2022 while Varier was posted in Korba from August 2021 to March 2023.

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