Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on January 20 said the Enforcement Directorate (ED) was being used as a tool to terrorise and silence political opponents.
He was responding to a query on grandnephew and party MLA Rohit Pawar getting summons from the ED to appear before the agency on January 24 for questioning as part of its money-laundering probe into the alleged Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSCB) scam.
The MSCB case stems from an August 2019 FIR of the Mumbai Police's Economic Offences Wing. The ED had raided Baramati Agro, a company owned by the Karjat-Jamkhed MLA, and some linked entities in Pune, Aurangabad etc., on January 5.
