Channi’s nephew held in illegal sand mining case

The Enforcement Directorate’s zonal office arrested Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi’s nephew in an illegal sand mining case. He was produced before a court and was remanded to ED’s custody till February 8. After ED raids on the premises of CM’s nephew Bhupinder Singh Honey and his aides on January 18, the ED summoned him to record his statement in a money laundering case registered in 2018 against Honey’s confidant Kundratdeep Singh. He was arrested after questioning him for about 9 hours. After his arrest, he complained of uneasiness and was taken to Jalandhar’s civil hospital for checkup where doctors declared him to be fit and he was taken back and kept overnight in custody. Sources claimed that during his questioning Honey had accepted that the entire amount of £1 million seized by ED during January 18 raids from him and his associates belonged to him.