U’khand: ED seizes Rs 1.20-cr cash, gold after raids against ex-minister Rawat, others

The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday said it seized Indian and foreign currency worth about Rs 1.20 crore, gold and “voluminous” documents during raids against Congress leader and former Uttarakhand minister Harak Singh Rawat and his close associates as part of a money laundering investigation.

An official statement issued by the federal agency did not specify what was recovered from where.

The searches were launched on Wednesday and a total of 17 locations in Uttarakhand, Delhi and Haryana were covered in a case against Birendra Singh Kandari, a “close associate” of Rawat, Indian Forest Service (IFoS) officer and former DFO Kishan Chand and former forest range officer Brij Bihari Sharma, the central agency said in a statement.