New Delhi, July 7, 2025 — The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached assets worth ₹14.06 crore belonging to former Haryana IAS officer ML Tayal and his family under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the agency said in a statement on Monday.
The attachments, carried out on June 30, include nine immovable properties—comprising two houses and seven apartments—located in Chandigarh, New Delhi, and Gurgaon, in addition to funds parked in multiple bank accounts.
Tayal, a 1976-batch officer, served as Principal Secretary to then Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda from March 2005 to October 2009, and later as a member of the Competition Commission of India until 2014. He was booked by the CBI in a disproportionate assets (DA) case in 2017, with a charge sheet filed in 2024.
The ED’s action follows a money laundering probe initiated on the basis of the CBI FIR registered in Chandigarh. The FIR alleged that Tayal and his family acquired wealth far exceeding their known sources of income during the check period of January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2014.
“The ED probe revealed that ML Tayal, his wife Savita Tayal, and son Kartik Tayal had generated proceeds of crime through illegal gratification and used the same to accumulate disproportionate assets worth approximately ₹14.06 crore,” the agency said in its statement.
The investigation scrutinized the family’s financial transactions, income tax records, and stock market dealings, ultimately uncovering the scale of unaccounted wealth amassed over nearly a decade.
The agency’s provisional attachment is a precursor to the eventual confiscation of assets, pending adjudication by the PMLA Authority. Legal proceedings in the matter are ongoing, and further action is expected as the probe progresses.
