NEW DELHI/RAIPUR: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached properties worth Rs 27.8 crore of former IAS officer Babu Lal Agarwal under Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002 (PMLA) in cases related to criminal misconduct and cheating by a public servant.
The attached assets include plant and machinery, bank accounts and immovable properties of the former bureaucrat and his family members, say officers.
Agrawal, a 1988-batch IAS officer, was arrested by the agency from his home in Raipur on November 9 and is in judicial custody till December 5.
Officials said ED initiated probe under PMLA on the basis of an FIR registered by anti-corruption bureau under Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, about disproportionate assets allegedly amassed by Agrawal and his family members.