Enforcement Directorate arrests ‘absconding’ former Haryana Congress MLA

The 61-year-old former legislator is known to have been taken into custody from a lodge in Delhi. File
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“The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested “absconding” former Haryana Congress MLA Dharam Singh Chhoker,” official sources mentioned on Monday (Might 5, 2025.)

The 61-year-old ex-legislator is known to have been taken into custody from a lodge in Delhi on Sunday (Might 4, 2025.) He might be produced earlier than a court docket in Gurugram on Monday. Chhoker is a former MLA from the Samalkha Meeting seat in Panipat district. He misplaced the Haryana Meeting polls final yr after his celebration gave him the ticket to contest from the identical seat once more.

Mr. Chhoker, his sons Vikas Chhoker (absconding) and Sikandar Chhoker face prices of “dishonest” greater than 1,500 homebuyers and siphoning greater than ₹500 crore funds from them. Sikandar was arrested by the ED final yr and he’s at the moment out on bail.

“A particular Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA) court docket has issued a number of non-bailable warrants in opposition to Dharam Singh Chhoker and Vikas Chhoker. The company had issued a proclamation in opposition to them and directed them to seem earlier than the court docket on Might 19,” the ED had mentioned in March.

The cash-laundering case stems from a Gurugram Police FIR filed in opposition to Sai Aaina Farms and related firms.