Overview
- The Enforcement Directorate searched at least nine locations in Raipur and Mahasamund on Monday as part of its land-compensation investigation.
- Premises tied to land broker Harmit Singh Khanuja, alleged associates, certain government officials and landowners were covered in the operation.
- The probe examines alleged irregularities in payments for land acquired for the Raipur–Visakhapatnam economic corridor under the Bharatmala programme.
- Earlier this year, Chhattisgarh’s ACB/EOW arrested brokers and two officials and filed an October chargesheet alleging Rs 32 crore was siphoned from compensation in related cases.
- Authorities have not announced seizures, detentions or new charges from the latest searches, and the federal investigation remains ongoing.