Dikhyaa Mohanty 
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Bhupinder Singh Honey, the nephew of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, in connection with a Prevention of Money Laundering case pertaining to illegal mining in Punjab. Honey was summoned by the ED for the second time on Thursday and after a day-long questioning was placed under arrest.
According to the reports, Honey was earlier summoned by the ED to join the investigation on January 23, but he skipped the first summon on health issues and didn’t join the investigation. He informed the ED officials that he was Covid positive and was unable to join the probe.
On January 18, ED had conducted raids at ten different locations, including Homeland Heights which is the residence of Honey. The ED continued raiding at different places for two days and recovered incriminating documents. Honey was asked to appear before the ED’s zonal office in Jalandhar. He had to record his statement in connection with the ongoing probe.
The ED officials had recorded the statement of Kudrat Deep Singh, the business partner of Honey. The ED official had said that they seized incriminating documents pertaining to illegal sand mining, property transactions, cell phones, gold worth above Rs 21 lakh and a watch worth Rs 12 lakh and cash Rs 10 crore during the raid.
