New Delhi, March 13 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday said it has frozen 90 bank accounts and incriminating material in the form of digital as well as documentary evidence during searches carried out on March 12 at 19 premises across Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab and Bengaluru.

The action was part of the raids conducted in Chandigarh, Punjab's Mohali, Haryana's Panchkula and Gurgaon, and Karnataka capital Bengaluru in connection with the IDFC First Bank Scam involving embezzlement of public funds amounting to Rs 597 crore pertaining to the Haryana government, Chandigarh Municipal Corporation and other government accounts.

ED said, "The amount of Rs 597 crore was to be kept as a fixed deposit with the bank; however, the accused...