Overview

• Search teams covered Bharadwaj’s residence and contractor premises on KG Marg and West Patel Nagar under Section 17 of the PMLA.
• The action is linked to an ECIR tied to ACB FIR No. 37/2025, which names former health ministers, private contractors and unknown officials.
• Investigators point to projects sanctioned in 2018–19 for about ₹5,590 crore that saw missed deadlines and major cost escalations.
• Cited examples include an ICU facilities project of ₹1,125 crore that is roughly half complete after nearly three years despite ₹800 crore spent, and LNJP’s new block rising from ₹488 crore to ₹1,135 crore.
• AAP leaders called the raids politically motivated and a distraction, BJP leaders welcomed the move as accountability, and officials indicated the probe is in the evidence-gathering stage with no arrests reported.