Chandigarh, April 30 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has conducted searches at 11 locations across Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Patiala in connection with a money laundering probe against suspended deputy inspector general (DIG) Harcharan Singh Bhullar and his associates, leading to seizure and freezing of Rs.1.4 crore and recovery of incriminating documents, the investigation agency said in a release on Wednesday. Bhullar, a 2009-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and former DIG (Ropar range), was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on October 16, 2025, in a bribery case. The search was carried out on April 27 under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, on premises linked to Bhullar, property dealers and suspected 'benamidars' (the person in whose name a benami asset is held), the release added. A separate FIR was also registered against Bhullar for allegedly possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. According to ED findings, substantial cash deposits and bank transfers were routed through accounts of property dealers and associated persons with no commensurate income....