The Chhattisgarh Anti-Corruption Bureau and Economic Offences Wing arrested a retired IAS officer in an alleged liquor scam. Niranjan Das, then commissioner of the state excise department, was arrested for his alleged role in assisting the syndicate handling and operating the scam.

Das allegedly received undue benefits worth several crores of rupees in return for the sale of unaccounted liquor in state-run liquor shops, transfer of officers, manipulation of tender process, cooperation in bringing in a flawed liquor policy and other ways to benefit the syndicate.