Congress MLA,ex INLD legislator in illegal mining & few builders in Haryana
Enforcement Department (ED) attached nearly 145 immovable properties of value worth Rs 122 crore including more than 100 acres of agricultural land, commercial plots and buildings of leading political leaders and highly influential persons across Haryana state in Gurugram, Faridabad, Sonepat, Karnal, Yamunanagar, Panchkula, Chandigarh and Mohali in Punjab belonging to Surinder Pawar Congress MLA in Sonepat, a former INLD MLA Dilbag Singh closely related to Abahy Chautala, Inderpal Singh a renowned builder, Manoj Wadhwa Congress leader from Karnal and many others. Their properties were attached under the anti-money laundering law by the Enforcement Directorate on August 12, 2024.
Surinder Panwar and former MLA Dilbag Singh were allegedly involved in illegal mining. ED team had conducted raid at Panwar’s Sector 15 residence in Panipat on January 4 this year allegedly running illegal mining business in Haryana and Rajasthan to collect important documents against him, which continued for 36 hours and arrested him on July 20 this year, presently lodged in Ambala Central jail under trial in money laundering case for amount worth Rs 25 crore.
Similarly, action was taken by ED against Dilbag Singh a former MLA alleged having number of properties registered in his name and running a syndicate managed and controlled by him indulged in large-scale illegal mining of sand, boulder and gravel in the Yamuna Nagar district of Haryana and some adjacent districts, said a spokesperson of the central agency. The team had raided his Yamunanagar office near Maharana Partap Chowk and farm house at Kalesar and claimed recovery of Rs 5 crore currency notes, three gold biscuits, more than 100 imported English wine bottles, five imported rifles, 300 cartridges and documents of several properties. After a five days ED raid, he was arrested on January 8 this year, but released on bail after a month.
