The Enforcement Directorate carried out searches on 12 premises across Chandigarh, Panchkula, Zirakpur, Dera Bassi and Rajpura in a money laundering probe linked to a municipal fraud case. The action follows an FIR by the ACB, Panchkula, alleging a conspiracy to embezzle about ₹145 crore from civic body accounts, with ED examining related financial trails.
In a major jolt to Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP, Rajya Sabha MPs Raghav Chadha, Ashok Mittal and Sandeep Pathak quit the party and joined the BJP. The switch follows weeks after a leadership reshuffle, when Mittal replaced Chadha in Rajya Sabha. The development comes amid recent high-stakes political heat, including ED raids that had already intensified scrutiny.
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