ED raids Ex-Minister Babu Singh in J&K over drug-linked Hawala money trail

The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday (November 6, 2025) conducted raids at different places in Jammu and Kashmir, including at the premises of former minister Babu Singh, as part of a drugs-linked money laundering investigation, official sources said.

Six buildings in Srinagar and two in Jammu are being covered under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

The case pertains to a narcotics-linked money laundering case, first detected by the UT Police in March 2022, where a man named Mohd Shareef Shah was apprehended while attempting to deliver Rs 6.9 lakh hawala money from Kashmir to Jammu to one Jatindra Singh @ Babu Singh alias Jatinder Singh, the sources said.

They said this money was intended to “fund” separatist and secessionist groups in Jammu to carry out subversive activities.