Overview
- The Enforcement Directorate on June 22 raided five residential and commercial properties in Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab linked to ADC Nishant Sareen, his father-in-law Ramesh Kumar Gupta and associate Komal Khanna.
- The PMLA case stems from an August 2019 FIR by the State Vigilance and Anti-corruption Bureau accusing Sareen of accepting bribes from pharmaceutical companies in Baddi.
- Sareen was arrested in September 2019 on corruption charges and released on bail in October before being reinstated as ADC in Dharamshala in 2024.
- ED sources say the investigation targets alleged misuse of office for extortion, political patronage and the generation of proceeds of crime.
- Investigators are examining financial records and interviewing witnesses as the money laundering probe progresses.