Bhopal, Feb. 14 -- Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Bhopal has taken physical possession of confiscated properties worth crores linked to forest ranger Harishankar Gurjar and others in a money laundering case, stated an official release on Friday.

The properties are in the form of two independent houses situated at Minal Residency, in the state capital Bhopal.

"ED initiated a money laundering investigation on the basis of an FIR registered by the Lokayukta Police, Bhopal under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and IPC, 1860 against Harishankar Gurjar (a Ranger in Forest Department, Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh) and his wife Seema Gurjar on the grounds that they were in possession of assets disproportionate to their known sources of inco...