{"id":63756,"date":"2026-04-17T11:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/?p=63756"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:48:09","slug":"ed-raids-aap-minister-sanjeev-aroras-premises-in-alleged-land-deal-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/latest\/ed-raids-aap-minister-sanjeev-aroras-premises-in-alleged-land-deal-case\/","title":{"rendered":"ED raids AAP minister Sanjeev Arora\u2019s premises in alleged land deal case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday carried out raids at multiple locations linked to AAP minister Sanjeev Arora in Punjab over an alleged land deal irregularity.<\/p>\n<p>ED teams reached Arora\u2019s residence in Gurdev Nagar, Ludhiana, around 7 am and deployed central security forces outside, restricting movement in and out of the premises. The minister was not present at home when the raid began.<\/p>\n<p>Simultaneous searches were also conducted at properties linked to real estate businessmen Hemant Sood and Chandrashekhar Agrawal in Ludhiana and Jalandhar. Sood, director of Hampton Homes and considered close to Arora, is also under the scanner, with raids ongoing at his Sarabha Nagar residence.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the ED is investigating around 13 locations across Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Gurugram and Chandigarh connected to the minister and his associates.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary inputs suggest the action is linked to alleged irregularities in a land deal, where industrial land was reportedly converted into residential use through Change of Land Use (CLU) approvals in violation of norms.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the development, Union minister Ravneet Singh Bittu took to social media, posting Arora\u2019s photo with the caption, \u201cSab phade jaan ge\u201d (everyone will be caught).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday carried out raids at multiple locations linked to AAP minister Sanjeev Arora in Punjab over an alleged land deal irregularity. ED teams reached Arora\u2019s residence in Gurdev Nagar, Ludhiana, around 7 am and deployed central security forces outside, restricting movement in and out of the premises. The minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,21,20],"tags":[14440,14437,14439,14438],"class_list":["post-63756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-political-news","category-punjab","tag-deal-case","tag-ed-raids-aap-minister","tag-in-alleged-land","tag-sanjeev-aroras-premises"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ED raids AAP minister Sanjeev Arora\u2019s premises in alleged land deal case - PunjabENews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/latest\/ed-raids-aap-minister-sanjeev-aroras-premises-in-alleged-land-deal-case\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ED raids AAP minister Sanjeev Arora\u2019s premises in alleged land deal case - PunjabENews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chandigarh: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday carried out raids at multiple locations linked to AAP minister Sanjeev Arora in Punjab over an alleged land deal irregularity. 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