Overview

• The Enforcement Directorate conducted searches on June 22 and 23 at seven residential, commercial and government locations across Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab, seizing drug licences, show-cause notices and digital devices.
• ED officials froze over 40 bank and fixed-deposit accounts, seized two SUVs valued at about ₹32 lakh and secured three bank lockers tied to Sareen and his relatives.
• Investigators discovered more than 60 unaccounted liquor bottles at Sareen’s Omaxe Cassia residence in New Chandigarh.
• The probe traces back to an August 2019 FIR under the Prevention of Corruption Act related to Sareen’s Baddi tenure, which led to his arrest that year, release on bail and his September 2024 transfer to Dharamshala.
• Investigations have expanded to fresh extortion complaints from Sareen’s current posting and suspected financial connections between his family and pharmaceutical firms.