Chhattisgarh: Chhattisgarh court has closed the disproportionate assets case against Aman Singh, former principal secretary of state’s former chief minister Raman Singh. The Raipur court accepted the final report of the EOW-ACB, according to which no case of disproportionate assets can be made out against Aman Singh. The final report of the state Economic Offences Investigation Bureau (EOW) – Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) had said that no case of disproportionate assets can be made out against Aman Singh and his wife Yasmin Singh.
The previous Congress government led by Bhupesh Baghel in the state had registered FIR number 09/2020 in this regard in February 2020 on the basis of the claim of an RTI activist.
According to the court order, the state EOW-ACB investigated for three years and failed to prove the allegations of disproportionate assets against Singh and his wife. The state EOW filed a final report in December last year before the current BJP government came to power. The lower court has now accepted the final report and quashed the FIR.
Aman Singh, a former Indian Revenue Service officer, was a high-ranking bureaucrat and principal secretary to the chief minister in the Raman Singh-led BJP government in Chhattisgarh. He resigned from the service in November 2022 and joined the Adani Group.
The Bilaspur High Court had quashed the said FIR two years ago, but the Supreme Court stayed the order in March 2023. The court said that the FIR should not be quashed at the investigation stage. Senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani, representing the Singh family, said that the then Bhupesh Baghel government used the FIR to target them unfairly. Former Chhattisgarh Chief Secretary Sunil Kumar said that targeting honest officers for political considerations is discouraging.
