ED conducts raids on properties of Congress leader Harak Singh Rawat
Op IndiaThe Enforcement Directorate on 7th February searched seventeen locations in Delhi, Uttrakhand, and Chandigarh in connection with a forest scam case involving Uttarakhand Congress leader and former forest minister Harak Singh Rawat. #WATCH | Enforcement Directorate conducts raids at residences related to former Uttarakhand minister Harak Singh Rawat in Dehradun. Teams from the Uttarakhand Vigilance Department raided a medical college and a gas station owned by Harak Singh Rawat’s son in August 2023 about a complaint regarding purported irregularities in the Pakhro Safari construction in the Kaulagarh Tiger Reserve in Corbett National Park. He and the divisional forest officer Kishan Chand were found guilty last year by the Central Empowered Committee of the Supreme Court of several illegal activities, including building related to a tiger safari in 2021 in the Pakhro and Morghatti forest areas of the Kalagarh Forest Division of the Corbett Tiger Reserve.