The Enforcement Directorate (ED) late Thursday night arrested Bhupinder Singh Honey, nephew of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, on money laundering charges in connection with illegal sand mining case. Honey was arrested in Punjab under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) by ED officials after nearly eight hours of interrogation.
Last month, the ED had conducted searches at the residences of Honey and others in Punjab’s Mohali, Ludhiana, Rupnagar, Fatehgarh Sahib, Pathankot. Over Rs 10 crore in cash, along with alleged incriminating documents related to sand mining business, property transactions, mobile phones, gold worth Rs 21 lakh and Rolex watch worth Rs 12 lakh were recovered after searches by ED officials.