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CHENNAI: Enforcement Directorate is not a “loitering munition or drone” that can strike at will, nor a “super cop” empowered to investigate every matter that comes to its notice, Madras HC has observed while quashing a Rs 901-crore fixed deposit freeze order issued by the agency. A division bench of Justices MS Ramesh and V…
RAIPUR: Enforcement Directorate arrested on Friday Chaitanya Baghel, son of former Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel, from his residence in Bhilai after the agency conducted an early morning search at his premises in connection with an alleged Rs 2,100 crore liquor scam during his father’s tenure as CM.Chaitanya was presented at a special PMLA court in…
ED files chargesheet against Harak Singh Rawat NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate’s Dehradun unit on Friday filed a prosecution complaint (chargesheet) against former Uttarakhand Congress minister Harak Singh Rawat in a money laundering case linked to land deals.Harak Singh and his wife Deepti Rawat are among five accused in the case. The others are Birendra Singh…
Former Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel’s son, Chaitanya, was arrested by the ED on his birthday in connection with the state’s liquor scam—just hours after raids at Baghel’s Bhilai home. In Bihar, PM Modi linked Operation Sindoor to his governance vision while taking a dig at Lalu Yadav over past neglect. In Ghaziabad, Hindu Raksha Dal…
LUCKNOW: Enforcement Directorate on Thursday raided 14 locations — 12 in UP’s Balrampur and 2 in Mumbai — linked to Jamaluddin, alias Chhangur Baba, the alleged mastermind behind illegal mass religious conversions, as part of its probe in suspected Rs 100-crore foreign funding and money laundering racket. Preliminary findings indicate that around Rs 68 crore…
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate has attached 43 properties valued at more than Rs 36 crore linked to businessman and husband of Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Robert Vadra and his companies, news agency PTI reported, quoting official sources. The action is part of an ongoing investigation into an alleged money laundering case related to…
BATHINDA/NEW DELHI: In a massive crackdown on illegal immigration rackets operating from several cities in Punjab and Haryana, the Enforcement Director on Wednesday conducted searches at 11 locations in seven cities on some of these agents, including on the premises of farmers’ union leader Sukhwinder Singh, also known as Sukh Gill, the president of BKU…
Sanjay Bhandari (File photo) NEW DELHI: A Delhi special court on Saturday declared arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari a Fugitive under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act today, following an application by the Enforcement Directorate.The special court issued the order under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act 2018.This ruling will likely strengthen India’s position in pursuing his extradition…
New Delhi: Financial irregularities allegedly committed in the conduct of IPL’s season 2 in South Africa in AprMay 2009 have come back to haunt the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) with then IPL chairman Lalit Modi urging the Supreme Court ask the cricket board to pay Rs 10 crore penalty on his…
NEW DELHI: Faced with criticism, Enforcement Directorate Friday said it issued summons to senior advocate Pratap Venugopal as part of its ongoing investigation against Care Health Insurance Ltd (CHIL) in which Venugopal was an independent director. ED’s Mumbai zonal office is conducting a money laundering investigation in which it has been alleged that shares of…
