The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has intensified its crackdown on financial crimes, conducting searches across Mumbai and Delhi in connection with a Rs 4,957 crore bank fraud case involving Pratibha Industries Limited. The company is accused of defrauding banks through fraudulent transactions and circular trading. As part of the investigation, the ED has frozen Rs 5.4 crore in funds. Additionally, the ED has provisionally attached movable and immovable assets worth Rs 4.68 crore belonging to the late Umesh Kumar Gandhi, a former Deputy Inspector General of Jail in Bhopal, and his associates under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002. Furthermore, the ED has questioned Rashmi Saluja, chairperson of Religare, in relation to another money laundering case.