Overview
- Deputy mamlatdar Chandrasinh Mori was arrested in Surendranagar after ₹67.50 lakh was seized from his home and was remanded to ED custody until January 1.
- ED told the court Mori admitted the cash was bribe money collected directly and via intermediaries for speeding land-use permissions, with amounts allegedly fixed per square metre.
- The Gujarat ACB registered an FIR against ex-collector Rajendrakumar Patel and three others on the ED’s complaint, a day after the state government transferred the collector without posting.
- In a separate probe, the ED arrested Chandra Prakash Gupta in a Delhi-NCR tech-support call-centre scam that allegedly cheated U.S. victims of about $15 million, identified assets over ₹100 crore, and seized jewellery, vehicles, cash and luxury watches; three accused remain absconding.
- ED teams also searched 11 sites across five states in the ‘digital arrest’ case involving S. P. Oswal, arrested facilitator Rumi Kalita and secured her custody till January 2, while a parallel Ruchi Group bank-fraud probe saw raids in Indore and Mumbai with cash seizures and bank balances frozen.