New Delhi: Former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel’s son Chaitanya was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday (July 18) in connection with an alleged liquor scam case, reported The Indian Express. The arrest came after the probe agency searched their house in Bhilai for the second time this year.Baghel claimed that this has been done to prevent him from raising the issue of felling of trees for the Adani Group’s coal mine project in Tamnar tehsil in Raigarh district of the state. “ED has arrived. Today is the last day of the assembly session. The issue of trees being cut in Tamnar for Adani was supposed to be raised today. At Bhilai Niwas, “Saheb” has sent the ED,” he said in a post on X, earlier this morning. The mine project has been reportedly allotted to Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Limited (MAHAGENCO), which has contracted the MDO (mine developer-cum-operator) to the Adani Group.In another post later, the Congress MLA took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah, calling the ED action “gifts” on his son’s birthday, which is on July 18.“The kind of birthday gift that Modi and Shah ji give, no one else in any democracy in the world can give. On my birthday, both highly respected leaders sent ED to the homes of my advisor and two OSDs. And now, on my son Chaitanya’s birthday, an ED team is raiding my house. Thank you for these gifts. They will be remembered for a lifetime,” he wrote on X.Meanwhile, Congress workers clashed with police personnel as they tried to stop ED vehicles from taking Chaitanya into custody, PTI reported.In March, the ED had conducted searches at 14 locations associated with the Chaitanya Baghel in the alleged liquor scam and money laundering case.Between 2018 and 2022, the ED had formed a case around the alleged illegal sale of liquor when the state was governed by the Bhupesh Baghel-led Congress government, based on which the Chhattisgarh Police had registered FIRs.It was alleged that liquor was sold off books in retail outlets, resulting in a loss to the state exchequer. The money was allegedly routed to politicians and bureaucrats of the state.ED had earlier pegged that the scam was worth over Rs 2,000 crore.