ED raids Anil Deshmukh’s ancestral houses in Nagpur

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday morning raided former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh’s ancestral house in Wadvihira and Katol in Nagpur district in connection with the Rs100 crore extortion case. ED sleuths accompanied by a team of armed Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) reached Deskhmukh’s two houses and started a search operation, Raids continued for hours. The houses have been cordoned off by the CRPF. It is said that Deshmukh or his close relatives were not present in the houses at Katol and Wadvihira.

On Friday, one residential flat owned by Deshmukh in Mumbai’s Worli, valued at Rs 1.54 crore, and 25 land parcels in Dhutum villages in Raigarh district of Maharashtra, book value Rs 2.67 crore, were attached by the ED. The agency then also issued summons to his wife Aarati Deshmukh for questioning. ED a couple of days ago, had provisionally attached the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader’s assets worth Rs 4.20 crores in a money laundering case. The central agency recently arrested Deshmukh’s personal secretary Sanjeev Palande  and personal assistant Kundan Shinde after it carried out raids against them and the NCP leader in Mumbai and Nagpur. Deshmukh had earlier skipped ED’s summons for questioning in the case.