scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Thursday, November 13, 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.

Why Chhagan Bhujbal choked with tears when he visited Maharashtra Sadan

Pragya Kaushika -
The NCP leader is out on bail for corruption cases, one of which pertains to alleged irregularities in the contract for the Sadan.

Journalist accused of Rs 100 crore corruption gets no relief from SC on investigation

PTI -
Upendra Rai had asked the court to restrain ED officer Rajeshwar Singh from conducting an investigation against him.

Court extends Chidambaram & son’s interim protection from arrest

PTI -
Chidambaram’s role has come under scanner in the Rs 3,500-crore Aircel-Maxis deal and the INX Media case.

ED files fresh chargesheet against AgustaWestland directors and ex-IAF chief

PTI -
The chargesheet filed in a Delhi court states that the accused laundered around 28 million euro. Further action on 20 July.

Probe against ED officer not likely to affect Aircel-Maxis investigation

Ananya Bhardwaj -
ED joint director Rajeshwar Singh has been accused of amassing disproportionate assets while investigating high-profile scams.

SC won’t take action against ED officer probing Aircel-Maxis deal, says it’s up to Centre

Ritika Jain -
Says government should examine “continued role” of the officer, but observes no 2G investigator should be “under a cloud”.

Belgium to cooperate with India in Nirav Modi’s extradition

PTI -
Country's ambassador to India says extradition treaty exists with India but cautions,'rule of law applies in Belgium.'

Saradha case: ED summons Nalini Chidambaram again

PTI -
She was questioned by the ED and the CBI earlier, but sources said she was being summoned again in 'light of new evidence'.

Nirav Modi, India’s most-wanted jeweller, is in UK now; ED moves to extradite him

Ananya Bhardwaj -
Enforcement Directorate initiates the process of extraditing the diamond merchant, wanted in connection with the Rs 11,000 crore PNB fraud scam.

Govt unleashes its caged parrot CBI when under crisis. Sterling scam is no different

Maneesh Chhibber -
Whenever the NDA government faces a crisis, a new development is suddenly reported in investigations involving the BJP’s opponents or its critics.
1...808182Page 81 of 82

On Camera

YourTurn

Opinion

Operation Sarp Vinash — the forgotten 2003 campaign that changed India’s fight against terror

Manvendra Singh -
Lt Gen Hardev Singh Lidder’s book on Operation Sarp Vinash shows why the Indian Army’s 2003 campaign to clear terrorist strongholds in Rajouri-Poonch still matters today.

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Air purifiers are the new water filters. Delhi has quietly accepted a crisis

Economy

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Sampurna Panigrahi -
Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

Follow us

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