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State Bureau, Ranchi. The ACB, which is investigating the liquor scam case under the Anti-Corruption Act, on Saturday filed a charge sheet against four people, including the placement agency that took the contract for manpower supply on fake bank guarantee.
This charge sheet has been filed in the special court of ACB located in Ranchi. Now after the court takes cognizance, no further action will be taken in this matter. Those against whom the charge sheet has been filed include M/s Vision Hospitality Services and Consultants Pvt. Ltd., along with their three directors Paresh Abhesingh Thakor, Vikramasingh Abhesingh Thakor and Mahesh Shidge.
The entire matter is related to the FIR registered in ACB Ranchi police station on May 20, 2025 in case number 09/2025. In this case, all three directors of the said placement agency were arrested on October 13 from Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
There was an obligation on them to file the charge sheet within 90 days, on the basis of which the charge sheet has been filed against them. If the chargesheet is not filed, they would also get default bail, as has been done in the past.
Placement agency Vision Hospitality Services had got the contract to supply manpower for the liquor shops of Hazaribagh, Chatra and Koderma. Investigation has revealed that this agency had taken the contract for manpower supply on fake bank guarantee.
The company deposited a bank guarantee of Rs 5,35,35,241 on 27 August 2023 under the signature of its representative Neeraj Kumar. After this, on 28 December 2023, a second bank guarantee was given under the signature of the company's director Mahesh Shidge saying that there has been an internal change in the company.
A letter was written for investigation on January 10, 2024, but no verification was done by the Excise Department or JSBCL. Due to this the government suffered a loss of more than Rs 38 crore.
The ED, which is investigating this entire case under money laundering, had earlier interrogated these three accused at Birsa Munda Central Jail, Hotwar, Ranchi.
ACB Ranchi had mentioned in its FIR that the then Principal Secretary of the Excise and Prohibition Department, Vinay Kumar Choubey, misused his position and gave the contract of manpower supply to his desired placement agency which did not meet the standards, ignoring the rules, due to which the department suffered loss of revenue.