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A team of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday raided the locations associated with Congress leader and former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harak Singh Rawat in an alleged money laundering case, news agency ANI reported.  As per official sources, cited by Jagran.com, locations linked with Rawat in Uttarakhand, Delhi and Chandigarh were raided by the federal probe agency.

Notably, Rawat parted ways with the BJP and joined Congress before the 2022 Assembly polls in Uttarakhand.  

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ED team raided Rawat’s residence located in Dehradun’s Defense Colony. As per reports, action is being taken against Rawat’s associates as well. Earlier in August 2023, the Vigilance Department had also taken action against  Rawat.

The ED action against Ravat is understood to be linked to alleged illegal activities in the state's Corbett Tiger Reserve, HT reported. 

Rawat was dismissed from the state cabinet and primary membership of the BJP for six years owing to the anti-party activities before assembly polls in the state.  

This came a day after the federal probe agency raided several places associated with AAP leaders, including Arvind Kejriwal’s personal secretary Bibhav Kumar, in an alleged money laundering probe. The residence of AAP’s Rajya Sabha member, ND Gupta, has also been raided by the ED.

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Earlier, the ED arrested the former chief engineer of the Jal Board under the PMLA law in connection with the aforementioned case. They also arrest a businessman under similar charges.