New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Jalandhar zone Tuesday carried out searches at seven premises in Punjab, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh in connection with an ongoing money laundering probe.

The case is linked to M/s Malbros International Pvt Ltd, a liquor manufacturing company, which is owned and controlled by Deep Malhotra, Gautam Malhotra and is a part of Oasis Group of Companies.

It is alleged that the said entity has contaminated soil and ground water in and around its factory at Tehsil Zira, District Ferozepur by dumping industrial effluents and discharging the same into earth by method of bore-wells. It is further alleged that it caused groundwater/water pollution in villages up to 4 km periphery of the said manufacturing unit. -Our Political Bureau