No "Political Motive": BJP After Probe Agency Raids Anil Deshmukh's Home

BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis said investigation against former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh is going on as per a Bombay High Court order.

The BJP today said investigation against former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh was going on as per a Bombay High Court order and rejected suggestions that Enforcement Directorate (ED) searches at his premises were politically motivated. The opposition party in the state also hit out at its former ally Shiv Sena, heading the ruling coalition in Maharashtra, for linking the ED action against the NCP leader with the BJP. BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis said investigation against Mr Deshmukh was underway on direction of the high court and it was wrong to attribute political motive to the ED action against the former home minister. The Enforcement Directorate today conducted searches at the premises of Deshmukh in Nagpur and Mumbai as part of a money laundering probe against him, officials said. The central probe agency had registered a criminal case under an anti-money laundering law against Mr Deshmukh and others last month after studying a CBI case.