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An Enforcement Directorate team faced violent protests while conducting searches at the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority office in Mohali. A vehicle utilised by the central probe agency was attacked and damaged outside the GMADA office, resulting in deflated tyres and broken window panes. The incident took place during an agitation by Aam Aadmi Party workers against ongoing searches linked to allegations of money laundering, due waivers, and change-of-land-use violations. Protesters reportedly breached police barricades and entered the premises before local police led by Senior Superintendent of Police Varun Sharma dispersed the gathering. An unnamed protester accused the central government and the probe agency of running a political vendetta ahead of upcoming elections, alleging that external miscreants carried out the vandalism. Meanwhile, a habeas corpus petition was filed in the High Court claiming illegal detention of civic body officials during the searches.

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00:00And breaking news coming in on the Enforcement Directorate team which has been attacked in Mohali amid raids.
00:07ED vehicle has been damaged after Mohali raids. Front tyre deflated, front pain has been broken.
00:13This as the ED was raiding the Greater Mohali Civic Body.
00:18The Amadi Party protest turned violent in Mohali as the party accuses the centre of misusing the Enforcement Directorate.
00:27Asim Basi brings us this Ground Report. Take a look.
00:31As the Amadi Party workers are continuously protesting against the ED raids in Punjab today, things turned a little violent
00:37when certain workers attacked this, they damaged this vehicle of ED which is standing outside the Gamada office.
00:43You know, as you know that ED continues to raid inside the Greater Mohali Area Development Authority office in Mohali
00:50since Tuesday.
00:51And now this vehicle which is used by ED that has been damaged.
00:56The window pane has been damaged and you can see that the tires of this Toyota Innova SUV has also
01:03been deflated.
01:05So these are situations out here.
01:07Firstly, certain Amadi Party workers, they went inside the Gamada office and now one of the vehicles of the ED
01:15has also been damaged out here.
01:17So over the ED rates, the ED rates in Punjab, the politics is currently on the boil.
01:22Now, ED is here. Why are you doing this? Why are you doing this?
02:15This is Propaganda politics, this is Vendetta politics.
02:16I was not present at all. I have no doubt. I have no doubt that they broke down here. It
02:21is RSS's work.
02:23So, the politics is on the boil with the ED raids continuing in the Gamada, the Amadi Party workers protesting
02:29against the ED, against the central government and now one of the car of the ED also being damaged from
02:34Mohali with camera person Kunjit is Asim Bassey, India Today.
02:37And Asim Bassey is joining me live on this story.
02:41Asim, the ED team now allegedly attacked in Mohali amid the raids.
02:46We also saw a habeas corpus petition being filed late last night in the high court claiming that the Gamada
02:54authorities, the officials were being illegally detained by the ED.
02:59We're seeing this direct face-off really. What is happening right now?
03:03What more can you tell us about this entire raids and the face-off?
03:12This is over because the ED is continuously rating in Gamada, Greater Mohali Area Development Authority office in Mohali since
03:18Tuesday on the charges of money laundering and the due waivers and also the change of land use.
03:25As the investigation on, the search is on. Today, the Amadi Party, they staged a protest outside the Gamada office
03:31and soon it turned very, very violent when the Amadi Party workers, they firstly broke the barricades, then they broke
03:37the gate, then they went inside the premises of the Gamada.
03:40The entire broke the police barricades, then they went inside and over there also two window panes were broken and
03:47when they tried to barge inside the premises and one could see very clearly individuals, the paramilitary troops who are
03:53with the ED, they are also standing there on one side inside the building and outside.
03:56The Amadi Party workers staged a VOC for a protest and the Mohali police tried to stop them, but the
04:01big question is how they managed to entrain.
04:03But when the protesters came out, before that two window panes were broken and when they came out, one of
04:09the ED vehicles was also attacked and damaged.
04:13Fortunately, no ED official, no driver, nobody was sitting inside that vehicle at that time, but the front window pane
04:19was broken and also the tire of this vehicle was deflated.
04:22But the police, the SSP, Varun Sharma reached the spot and they scattered and they moved away the protesters from
04:28that side.
04:29But now the protest is totally over from there, but yes, the politics is on the boil in Punjab with
04:34this ED raids in Gamada, in one of the government houses in Chandigarh and also ED raided the nephew of
04:42one of the ministers, Hadid Singh Mundia.
04:44So, with the elections coming up, now with ED doing such as, Amadi Party is terming this as total politics
04:52and saying that ED is being used as a tool.
04:55That is what the allegation of the Amadi Party is, yes.
04:58Alright, thank you very much for that, Asim Basi.
05:00Following the drama in Mohali, the Enforcement Directorate conducting raids as the Amadi Party claims, this is misuse of the
05:10Enforcement Directorate as elections are coming closer.
05:14We're seeing more and more politics breaking out, but you're also seeing on your screen, viewers, how the party workers
05:21were attacking the vehicle involved in the raid.

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