The ED operation at the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority began on Tuesday, according to the account of the investigation. AAP workers gathered outside the authority’s Mohali office on Thursday, September 24. The agency also searched the home of a nephew of Punjab cabinet minister Hardeep Singh Mundian in Sahnewal, near Ludhiana, on Wednesday.
At a press conference, Mundian accused the BJP of trying to influence upcoming assembly elections through fear. Senior AAP leader and cabinet minister Harpal Singh Cheema said the searches had disrupted government work across Punjab for three days and inconvenienced residents. He also claimed that the searches had produced nothing, a statement not independently established in the report.
Cheema further alleged that ED officers tried to intimidate children and older relatives during a search at a minister’s relative’s home. The report does not describe a response from the agency to that allegation or provide details of evidence gathered in the money-laundering investigation.
Punjab BJP president Kewal Singh Dhillon said the AAP government should answer the issues under investigation with records and facts instead of political accusations. The opposition Shiromani Akali Dal also criticized AAP’s response. Its senior leader Daljit Cheema urged the party to support the investigation and seek details of any corruption uncovered.
The confrontation has placed the searches at the centre of a broader political dispute ahead of Punjab’s assembly elections. The ED’s case remains an alleged money-laundering probe; the source account does not report charges or findings against the officials connected to it.