Drug case: Asset details sought

Tribune News Service

Mohali, January 20

In the multi-crore Bhola drug racket, the Special CBI court here today forwarded a “letter of request” to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), seeking details of properties owned abroad by 18 accused in the case.

Special public prosecutor for the Enforcement Directorate (ED) Jagjit Singh Sarao said the “letter of request”

was moved before the court in August 2017 under the PML Act, seeking details of properties owned by the accused in Canada and the UK.

Sarao said the request had been forwarded to the ministries concerned to open diplomatic channels with Canada and the UK to probe property details of the accused and provide the same to the Indian Government.

The ED suspected that the money generated from the drug trade had been parked in immovable and moveable assets within the country and abroad.

On Saturday, the court ordered investigation into the Canada-based

properties of Anup Singh Kahlon, Ranjit Kaur, Manpreet Singh, Daljeet Singh, Sukhraj Singh Kang, Nirankar Singh Dhillon, Lehmbar Singh, Ranjit Singh Aujla, Amarjit Singh Koonar, Tony Parmod Sharma, Satpreet Singh, Pradip Singh Dhaliwal, Davinder Singh Narwal, Harmahinder Singh, Parminder Singh and Rai Bahadur Nirwal.

The court also issued orders to probe UK-based properties of Madan Lal

and Kulwant Singh.