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ED Steps Up Multi-Front Action: Summons to Amarinder, UP Raids, Lodha in Custody, ₹132.85 Crore Attachments

A coordinated phase of Enforcement Directorate activity now spans political figures, a UK-linked cleric and corporate bank-fraud probes.

Overview

  • Fresh FEMA summons were issued to Captain Amarinder Singh and Raninder Singh in a 2016 undisclosed foreign assets case, with Amarinder seeking medical adjournment and the Jalandhar ED chief Ravi Tiwari transferred to Chennai.
  • The Punjab and Haryana High Court had earlier allowed ED access to income-tax records and French-sourced documents, expanding the probe’s evidentiary base.
  • Searches in Uttar Pradesh targeting Maulana Shamsul Huda Khan recovered records for 17 properties, with investigators citing about ₹5–5.5 crore in account inflows since 2007 and a present market value near ₹20 crore for linked assets.
  • ED officials say the Maulana case stems from UP Police FIRs alleging concealed UK citizenship, continued salary and pension, and routing of funds through NGOs for assets and madrasas, with forensic analysis under way.
  • In corporate cases, a special court granted ED custody of former Lodha Developers director Rajendra Lodha in an alleged wrongful-loss probe, and the agency provisionally attached Ushdev International properties worth ₹132.85 crore tied to a ₹1,438 crore bank-fraud investigation, taking total attachments in that case to ₹176.37 crore.