ED raids against AAP's Saurabh Bharadwaj in Delhi, party calls it 'diversionary tactic'

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday conducted searches at premises linked to AAP leader and former Delhi minister Saurabh Bharadwaj and others as part of a money laundering investigation, official sources said.

Around a dozen locations in the national capital are being searched by the federal probe agency under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they said.

The investigation against Bharadwaj (45), former Delhi health minister, is understood to be linked to an Anti-Corruption Branch case into alleged corruption in health infrastructure projects by the previous AAP government.

Meanwhile, Kejriwal's party has reacted to the news and said the raids against Bharadwaj are nothing but diversionary tactic as the case against him is false and dates back to time when he wasn't even minister.

Manish Sisodia, another AAP leader called it a diversionary tactic in the wake of PM Modi's degree row.