Ludhiana / Chandigarh / Delhi: Almost a dozen houses and offices owned by Punjab CM’s nephew Chararjit Singh Channi and several servants were sought in a joint attack by the Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday as part of a new probe related to the allegations of cash laundry for illegal sand mining cash mining, reported Mohit Behl.
Raids, who came almost five years after the mining case was archived, produced around Rs 6 Crore in countless cash, said the Directorate Officer.
Raids, produced around RS 6 Crore in illegal cash form, including Rs 4 Crore from the residence of CM Channi Entrepreneurs, Bhupinder Singh Honey’s nephew, said ED officials.
Handheld property documents are also confiscated.
10 Locations sought by Ed Team Including Ludhiana House and rented apartments in Mohali belonging to Bhupinder, a director in companies where Prima was accused of illegal sand mining cases, Kudratdeep Singh, allegedly washed sick money.
Some other places in Mohali and Pathankot are raided, including those from Associate Bhupinder Sandeep Kumar.
Sumber Ed said around Rs 2 Crore was confiscated from the residence of Sandeep.
Raids is based on the information report on the Law Enforcement Case (ECIR) registered on November 30 last year.
CM Channi was the first to react to the raid, sucking the action of Ed “Vendetta Politics” and drawing parallel with how the central agency allegedly hunted Bengal Bengal’s nephew Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee parliamentarians in the country last year.
“This is just an effort to target me, the ministers and workers of Congress,” he said, suggesting an ED attack may be retaliation for security violations during January 5, January 5 to Ferozepur.
The Punjab Major Opposition Party AAP claimed that all of them said that many Channi cabinet members were involved in illegal sand mining, and that they enjoyed CM protection.
The leadership of the Congress Center accused the BJP government in the center of slandering punjab.
Randeep Surjewala Party spokesman accused that the BJP government was “looking for revenge on CM Dalit”.
He accused AAP “in Cahoots with BJP”.
“BJP and Arvind Kejriwal cannot digest the fact that Dalit takes over as Minister of Punjab.
ED is not the Directorate of Enforcement, but the BJP election department,” Surjewala said.
Illegal sand mining cash files submitted by police punjab in Mohali on March 7, 2018, named the businessman Ludhiana Kudratdeep Singh among the 26 defendants.
FIR at the Rahon police station at Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar has been registered after CM Captain Amarinder Singh seems to have seen illegal sand mining between Rahon and Philaur from the helicopter that flew him to Karttarpur.