India, July 28 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED), a long arm of the Modi government, has extensively deployed its resources for disciplining dissenting political opponents, conducting 3,010 raids between 2014 and 2022 (eight years), as compared to 112 raids carried out between 2004 and 2014 during the ten years of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) rule.

ED raids target financial crimes, including money laundering, violation of foreign exchange regulations, and cases involving fugitive economic offenders under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act and the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FERA and FEMA). The objective is to detect, investigate and prosecute individuals and institutions involved in financial crimes and to recover the pr...