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New Delhi, Jul 18 (PTI) The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday searched the premises of Haryana Congress MLA Rao Dan Singh, a metal fabricating company and its promoters as part of a money laundering probe linked to an alleged Rs 1,392 crore worth bank loan fraud case, official sources said.

About 15 locations, including those in Mahendragarh, Bahadurgarh and Gurugram in Haryana, Delhi and Jamshedpur in Jharkhand, were being searched by the central agency’s Gurugram zonal office.

A team of central armed police force (CAPF) personnel accompanied the search teams.

The premises of the 65-year-old MLA from Mahendragarh constituency, including a farm house in Rewari, locations of his son Akshat Singh, the company Allied Strips Limited (ASL) and its promoters Mohinder Agrawal, Gaurav Agrawal and some others were being raided, the sources said.

ASL manufactures cold roll steel products.

The company is alleged to be involved in a bank loan fraud case of Rs 1,392 crore and was booked by the CBI in 2022.

It is alleged that Rao Dan Singh’s family and his companies took loan money from ASL but never returned and later these funds were written off, the sources said.

The MLA had contested the recent Lok Sabha polls from the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh seat as a Congress nominee. He lost to BJP’s Dharambir Singh by a margin of over 41,000 votes.