CHANDIGARH, May 18– The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached immovable assets worth ₹1.29 crore belonging to former Assistant Inspector General (AIG) Ashish Kapoor for alleged violations under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), officials said on Sunday.
The action stems from two FIRs lodged by the Punjab Vigilance Bureau, which had booked Kapoor and others under multiple sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Corruption Act. The ED’s probe revealed that Kapoor, during his tenure at Amritsar Central Jail in 2016, allegedly extorted cash and gold from two individuals and their families while the men were in police custody.
Investigators found that Kapoor amassed wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income. “He acquired both immovable and movable properties in Chandigarh and Mohali over the past five years, which have now been attached,” an ED official said.
Kapoor, who was arrested in October 2022, is currently out on bail. The state government had granted the Vigilance Bureau permission to prosecute him earlier this year, in January.
According to the ED, Kapoor purchased a 507.5 square yard residential plot in Sector 88, Mohali, for ₹90.16 lakh and built a two-storey house on it between 2020 and 2022.
In the same year, he also bought a 241.11 square yard plot in New Chandigarh for ₹34.13 lakh.
The case is part of a larger crackdown on allegedly corrupt public servants in Punjab, as authorities seek to recover ill-gotten wealth and enforce accountability.
