scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Sunday, November 16, 2025
TopicEnforcement Directorate

Topic: Enforcement Directorate

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is a central agency working directly under the Ministry of Finance, tasked with investigating and enforcing laws related to financial offenses. Its origin goes back to 1 May, 1956, when an Enforcement Unit was formed in the Department of Economic Affairs for handling Exchange Control Laws violations under Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947. The following year, this Unit was renamed as Enforcement Directorate.

The ED’s mandate encompasses investigating offenses under significant legislative frameworks such as the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the Foreign Exchange Management Act of 1999 (FEMA), and the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act of 2018 (FEOA). The agency investigates individuals and entities involved in financial wrongdoing. This may include tracing illicit funds, seizing assets acquired through illegal means, and prosecuting offenders to ensure accountability and deterrence.

Headquartered in New Delhi, the ED operates through a network of regional offices in Mumbai, Chennai, Chandigarh, Kolkata.

No bail for arrested DMK minister Senthil Balaji, but can stay in hospital for now, says court

Debdutta Chakraborty -
The ED arrested Balaji late Tuesday night on charges of money-laundering. The minister is permitted to stay in a hospital at the moment as he complained of chest pain soon after arrest.

Tamil Nadu minister Senthil Balaji cries after arrest, BJP calls it drama, ‘screenplay by DMK’

ThePrint Team -
The power, prohibition and excise minister was arrested for alleged money-laundering after being questioned for nearly 18 hours Tuesday.

ED sends notices to Xiaomi, 3 banks over ‘illegal remittances’ to foreign entities

Aditya Kalra -
Notices issued under FEMA after Xiaomi’s local unit allegedly made illegal remittances to foreign entities by passing them off as royalty payments.

‘Money laundered via lottery tickets’ — ED chargesheet against TMC’s Anubrata Mondal in ‘cattle smuggling scam’

Sreyashi Dey -
In chargesheet filed Thursday, ED details how TMC's Birbhum district chief Anubrata Mondal, his daughter Sukanya and others allegedly laundered proceeds of the racket.

Manappuram Finance says ED action against promoter, not company

Ira Dugal -
Manappuram's promoter, VP Nandakumar, claimed that the probe was not related to the company but a private entity called Manappuram Agro Farms, which is no longer in existence.

ED questions SC verdict on incomplete probe not defeating default bail right — ‘contrary to binding decisions’

Bhadra Sinha -
Enforcement Directorate's assertion came in appeal against Delhi HC order giving bail to an accused in money laundering case, relying on SC's Ritu Chhabaria verdict on default bail.

Probing Bengal ‘SSC scam’, ED found parallel ‘municipal recruitment racket’. What its report says

Sreyashi Dey -
CBI Monday lodged FIR over alleged 'Rs 200-cr' scam, days after Calcutta HC order to probe. ED status report says it stumbled upon 'racket' while investigating teachers’ recruitment 'scam'.

‘Kept behind bars over 2 yrs without trial’ — court order granting bail to Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor

Akshat Jain -
Judge noted Kapoor's ‘undue incarceration’ in loan fraud case and said CBI & ED had ‘never taken any care to follow the true spirit of PMLA'.

Now, ED launches FEMA probe against BBC, questions staff 

Ananya Bhardwaj -
The I-T Department had in February carried out a survey on BBC offices in India to probe alleged irregularities in ‘transfer pricing’ and ‘international taxation’. 

‘Let him come to Assam…’: Himanta hits out at Kejriwal after Delhi CM’s ‘all corrupt in one party’ barb

Karishma Hasnat -
In Delhi assembly, Kejriwal named his Assam counterpart as being among those who joined BJP on the back of graft allegations. Himanta calls him a 'coward in hiding'.
1...434445...82Page 44 of 82

On Camera

YourTurn

Opinion

What Pakistan Supreme Court judge Mansoor Ali Shah wrote in his resignation letter

Mansoor Ali Shah -
The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.

Modern lovers are trapped in ‘chalta hai’ relationships. Breakups are a lost art

Coffee isn’t ruining your face. Sugar, dairy and sleep deprivation are

Economy

As govt starts rolling back Quality Control Orders, a look at adverse impact they had, mainly on MSMEs

Udit Bubna -
Between 2016 and 2025, around 700 QCOs were issued by the government. Now, it has withdrawn 69 of them.

Defence

Drone manufacturer ideaForge wins orders worth over Rs 100 crore from Army

Snehesh Alex Philip -
ideaForge has formed a joint venture to manufacture and market UAVs in the US. Its Q6 UAV is now included in NATO and allied procurement systems.

National Interest

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Shekhar Gupta -
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.

Follow us

Copyright © 2025 Printline Media Pvt. Ltd. All rights reserved.