The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted raids on Wednesday at 20 locations in Chandigarh, including the residence of the Punjab Excise Commissioner, in connection to the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy.
The residence of Punjab Excise Commissioner Varun Roojam is located in Chandigarh’s Sector 20.
The house of the IAS officer was also raised by the probe agency in September 2023 as well.
There was no additional information on the ongoing raids.
The latest ED raids come as the Delhi High Court is hearing Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s plea against his arrest by the probe agency in connection with the liquor policy scam.
Kejriwal was arrested on March 21 from his Civil Lines residence, hours after the Delhi High Court refused to grant him interim relief from any coercive action by the probe agency.
The Aam Aadmi Party national convenor’s petition called his arrest and the subsequent remand to the ED “illegal”.
The plea also sought his immediate release from ED custody.
Source Agencies
