LUDHIANA: Enforcement Directorate’s Delhi Zonal office on Friday conducted raids at several places in Punjab in connection with the Delhi excise policy scam. According to information available from highly placed sources, raids are under way in Ludhiana, Mansa and Faridkot. Sources also claimed that premises linked to one of liquor companies in which Shiromani Akali Dal’s ex-MLA Deep Malhotra has stake, are also being covered in the raids, including a residential property in Faridkot which allegedly belongs to Malhotra. In Ludhiana, Gurdev Nagar warehouse cum office of a liquor company Brindco Sales is being covered in the action. Sources say, the directors of this company are already under ED scanner since the initial stage of investigation of this scam in which Delhi’s deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia is also on radar of agency. Earlier, in the first week of September, ED had raided two senior officials of the excise department Punjab.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ludhiana/punjab-ed-raids-several-places-in-connection-with-delhi-excise-policy-scam/articleshow/94697656.cms