New Delhi, Nov. 4 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday conducted searches at seven premises located in Hyderabad and Secunderabad in Telangana and in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh in a case relating to the evaluation of the answer scripts of the Group-I Main Examination conducted by the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC).

ED's Hyderabad zonal office launched the operation early in the morning under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

The case is related to irregularities in the manual evaluation of the answer scripts of the APPSC Group-I Main Examination, in the course of which an amount of Rs 1,14,32,312 is alleged to have been paid to a private party, the officials said.

The search operations ...