Chandigarh, June 11, 2025 — The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested former Haryana MLA Ramniwas and ex-Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP) official Sunil Kumar Bansal in connection with a major money laundering case involving alleged misappropriation of state government funds. The arrests were made on June 9 in Chandigarh under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
According to a statement issued by the ED on Wednesday, the two men were taken into custody following a detailed investigation stemming from a First Information Report (FIR) lodged by Haryana Police at the Sector 7 police station in Panchkula.
Ramniwas, who served as a legislator from the Narwana Assembly constituency between 2019 and 2024 on a Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) ticket, is also a former HSVP official like Bansal. The ED stated that the investigation uncovered a pattern of suspicious transactions involving funds from the HSVP’s Punjab National Bank account in Chandigarh.
Citing the original police complaint filed by the HSVP’s drawing and disbursing officer (DDO), the ED said, “Between 2015 and 2019, around ₹70 crore was repeatedly transferred to certain parties from an HSVP bank account without any clear justification.”
An internal inquiry by HSVP revealed that the bank account in question was not listed in the organisation’s cash branch records or IT systems, leading authorities to suspect deliberate concealment. “This clearly indicates that HSVP was defrauded in a clandestine manner by Bansal and Ramniwas,” the ED alleged in its statement.
The agency also noted that the ₹70 crore figure might only be the tip of the iceberg. “The fraud is not confined to a single bank account or a limited amount. It is very huge,” the ED said, suggesting that the scale of the misappropriation could be far more extensive than currently documented.
Further investigation into the money trail, possible beneficiaries, and the extent of the conspiracy is underway, the ED added.
