The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested former Congress MLA Dharam Singh Chhokar on Monday morning in a money laundering case worth Rs 1500 crore. He was taken into custody from a hotel in Delhi.
Chhokar is a well-known political leader from Samalkha in Haryana. He has been elected as an MLA from the area two times.
This arrest comes after the ED had earlier arrested his son, Sikander Chhokar, in the same case. The ED is investigating serious financial frauds and the use of fake companies to move illegal money.
The case started after police in Gurugram filed FIRs in 2023. It is believed that Chhokar and his sons, Vikas and Sikander, collected around Rs 363 crore from nearly 1,500 people who were promised homes under an affordable housing scheme in Sector 68, Gurugram.
However, the company, Mahira Group, failed to deliver the houses by 2021-22 as promised. Angry home buyers protested against the company.
The ED found that the company directors used fake bills to show false construction costs. They got cash in return from these fake companies and used the money for personal use.
In July 2023, the ED had already seized Mahira Group’s properties, vehicles, cash, jewelry, and offices worth crores.
Chhokar first became an MLA in 2009 from the Haryana Janhit Congress party. Later, he joined Congress and was elected again in 2019. In the 2024 Assembly elections, he ran again but lost.
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