{"id":501129,"date":"2024-02-07T11:06:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T05:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=501129"},"modified":"2024-02-07T11:35:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T06:05:05","slug":"ed-raid-harak-singh-rawat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/ed-raid-harak-singh-rawat\/","title":{"rendered":"ED raids several location linked to Congress leader Harak Singh Rawat in money laundering case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Enforcement Directorate today raided the home of Uttarakhand Congress leader and former minister Harak Singh Rawat &nbsp;in connection with a money laundering case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ED was raiding over ten locations linked to him in Uttarakhand and in Delhi-NCR, reports said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The searches were conducted at several locations in Chandigarh, Delhi, and Uttarakhand. It is believed that the ED inquiry is connected to purportedly unlawful operations in the state&#8217;s Corbett Tiger Reserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | Enforcement Directorate conducts raids at residences related to former Uttarakhand minister Harak Singh Rawat in Dehradun. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TU7Qp60ZZM\">pic.twitter.com\/TU7Qp60ZZM<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1755077207817421055?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahead of the Uttarakhand assembly election in 2022, Harak Singh Rawat, who had been expelled from both the state cabinet and the primary membership of the Bharatiya Janata Party for six years on account of anti-party activities,&nbsp;joined the Congress. After he left BJP, Uttarakhand election was won by the party for a second time in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Uttarakhand forest minister Harak Singh Rawat and the divisional forest officer (DFO) Kishan Chand were found guilty last year by the Central Empowered Committee of the Supreme Court of a number of illegal activities, including building related to a tiger safari in 2021 in the Pakhro and Morghatti forest areas of the Kalagarh Forest Division of the Corbett Tiger Reserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to a plea filed by counsel Gaurav Kumar Bansal, the committee found Harak Singh Rawat and Chand guilty of building operations related to the tiger safari and other unlawful undertakings in the Pakhro and Morghatti forest regions. The report was turned in to the supreme court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, it had authorised the Uttarakhand Vigilance Department to pursue legal action against the forest officers implicated in the violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ED is conducting raids in Delhi, Chandigarh, and Uttarakhand in alleged forest scam case linked to former Uttarakhand Minister Harak Singh Rawat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":501132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[75854,138227,119346,102677],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/02\/07110518\/congress-leader-harak-singh-rawat-80-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501129"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=501129"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=501129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->