Hyderabad, Feb. 26 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED), on Tuesday, February 26, arrested a senior journalist and The Hindu's Gujarat correspondent Mahesh Langa, locked up at the Sabarmati Central Jail.

The ED charged Langa under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), alleging money laundering, linked to an alleged financial fraud.

He was produced before a special PMLA court in Ahmedabad and was sent to ED custody till February 28.

The ED, in a statement, it had initiated an investigation on the basis of an FIR registered by DCB, police station, Ahmedabad City, Maheshbhai Prabhudan Langa and others for cheating and criminal breach of trust, and found that another FIR had been filed against the veteran journalist by the Satellit...