Jalandhar, March 26 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday provisionally attached properties worth Rs.12.31 crore belonging to former revenue officials and property dealers in a money laundering case, a spokesperson of the probe agency said.

Officials said house and other properties in the name of former naib tehsildar Varinder Pal Singh Dhoot, former patwari Iqbal Singh and some property dealers, located in SAS Nagar, Chandigarh and Hoshiarpur, have been attached.

The agency had registered an enforcement case information report (ECIR) in March 2021 under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in Jalandhar.

The case pertains to alleged illegal allotment of 102 acres of 'shamlat' land, or common village land, at Seonk vil...