NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate on Friday carried out searches at premises linked to Punjab industries minister Sanjeev Arora. The raids have been carried out at a number of places linked to Arora in Ludhiana and elsewhere as a part of an ongoing investigation, officers stated. The AAP chief had additionally confronted company motion in 2024, when the ED alleged that firms linked to him and others brought about losses to the state exchequer and generated giant proceeds of crime by means of the alleged misuse of business land for residential tasks.Ex-Delhi CM and AAP supremo Arvid Kejriwal criticized the raids, noting that it marked the second raid on an Aam Aadmi Celebration chief inside three days. Writing on X, he questioned whether or not any “black cash” had truly been recovered within the quite a few raids concentrating on AAP figures.Reacting to the event, senior AAP chief Saurabh Bhardwaj wrote on His remarks come amid back-to-back motion involving AAP figures in Punjab over the previous two days.Earlier this week, the ED carried out searches on the residence of AAP Rajya Sabha MP Ashok Kumar Mittal in Jalandhar, together with premises linked to his instructional establishments in Punjab and Haryana underneath FEMA provisions. The raid drew consideration because it got here quickly after Mittal was appointed the celebration’s deputy chief within the Rajya Sabha, changing Raghav Chadha.