CHANDIGARH: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) seized several luxury cars, jewellery worth Rs 14.5 lakh and Rs 4.5 lakh in cash in the raids conducted at the house and companies owned by Congress Haryana MLA Dharam Singh Chhoker. The raids took place on Monday in connection with a money laundering case.

Apart from the luxury cars, jewellery, and cash, ED also seized several documents from Dharam Singh's house and the companies owned by him. ED had on July 25 conducted search operations at 11 locations -- across Samalkha, Gurugram, and Delhi -- belonging to M/s Sai Aaina Farms Pvt. Ltd. (presently Mahira Infratech Pvt. Ltd) and other group companies of Mahira Group owned and controlled by Dharam Singh Chhoker (MLA, Samalkha Constituency, Haryana) and family under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.

In a release put out on Monday, ED said it initiated investigations based on FIRs registered by Gurugram Police against M/s Sai Aaina Farms Pvt. Ltd. for “cheating and forgery”.

M/s Sai Aaina Farms Pvt. Ltd, according to ED, had collected about Rs 360 crore from 1,497 home buyers under the affordable housing scheme, on the promise of providing houses at Sector 68, Gurugram. However, the said entity failed to deliver the houses and missed multiple deadlines. The home buyers have been holding protests /dharnas for 1 year against the Mahira Group seeking delivery of the promised houses at the earliest.

In an affidavit filed during the 2019 assembly elections, Chhoker, who had studied only till the 10th standard, had shown agriculture as his primary source of income.