New Delhi, Dec. 18 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday conducted searches at 13 business and residential premises across Punjab, Haryana and Delhi in the Dunki route case, officials said.

The raids have been underway since morning in close coordination with the police forces covering the premises of "second and third layer persons involved in the chain" of the syndicate.

ED's Jalandhar zonal office teams are carrying out searches at these 13 locations based on certain inputs in the case in which the ED initiated an investigation on the basis of various First Information Reports (FIRs) registered related to 330 Indians deported by the USA through a military cargo plane in February 2025.

During the ED investigation, it was fo...