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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) recovered Rs 5 crore crash, foreign-made arms and as many as 300 cartridges while carrying out raids at locations linked to former Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) legislator Dilbag Singh in connection with an illegal mining case.
The search operation at Singh’s residence continued for the second consecutive day on Friday morning. On Thursday, searches were also conducted at the residence of Haryana Congress MLA Surender Panwar.
Both Panwar, an MLA from Sonipat, and Singh, a former MLA from Yamunanagar, are in the mining business. Around 20 locations linked to the two politicians and their close aides were raided in Yamunanagar, Sonipat, Mohali, Faridabad, Chandigarh and Karnal, sources said.
The raids follow multiple FIRs registered by the Haryana Police in the past regarding illegal mining in Yamunanagar, Sonipat and nearby districts.
In the 2019 Assembly polls, Panwar contested on a Congress ticket from Sonipat and defeated BJP’s Kavita Jain by a margin of over 32,000 votes, while INLD’s Singh lost to BJP’s Ghanshyam Dass in Yamunanagar by a thin margin of over 1,400 votes.
Both Panwar and Singh were among Haryana’s richest candidates in the 2019 Assembly polls. While Panwar had declared total assets of Rs 27 crore, Singh had declared assets of Rs 34 crore.
Panwar and Singh were not available for comments.
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