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The Enforcement Directorate has summoned erstwhile Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh and his lad Raninder Singh for questioning successful transportation with a Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) usurpation case, officials said connected Wednesday (February 11, 2026).
The father-son duo person been accused of being the "beneficiaries" of definite overseas assets, including a Swiss slope account.
Amarinder Singh, a BJP leader, has been asked by the national probe bureau to look astatine its Jalandhar bureau connected Thursday (February 12, 2026) portion his lad has been asked to depose the adjacent day, the officials said.
Sources, however, said Amarinder Singh whitethorn not depose connected February 12 arsenic helium precocious got admitted to a backstage infirmary successful Mohali.
The ED whitethorn springiness him a caller day to look and grounds his connection nether FEMA.
The determination is related to a September 2025 bid of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
The High Court had past dismissed petitions filed by the father-son duo seeking to halt the ED from inspecting an Income Tax Department chargesheet against them for allegedly being the beneficiaries of definite overseas assets, including a Swiss slope account.
The substance stems from "credible" accusation and "master sheets" received by India from the French authorities successful 2011 alleging the Singhs to beryllium the "beneficiaries" of overseas assets "maintained and controlled" done overseas concern entities including a Swiss slope relationship and an plus successful Dubai, held done a trust.
The I-T Department filed a prosecution ailment (chargesheet) against the 2 earlier the tribunal of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ludhiana successful 2016 nether conception 277 (prosecution for making mendacious statements oregon producing mendacious accounts/documents) isolated from immoderate sections of the IPC.
The ED subsequently moved an exertion earlier the magistrate tribunal for inspection of documents filed by the taxation department, or, successful the alternative, seeking directions to the complainant (I-T Department) to supply a transcript of those documents arsenic it was probing the said lawsuit nether the FEMA.
The magistrate tribunal allowed the ED plea but it was challenged by the Singhs earlier the tribunal of further territory justice of Ludhiana. The further territory tribunal upheld the magistrate tribunal order.
The Singhs past filed an entreaty against this bid earlier the precocious tribunal stating the I-T records incorporate "secret" accusation fixed by the French Republic to the Government of India and determination was a "specific bar" connected providing immoderate specified accusation to a alien nether the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement betwixt the 2 countries.
The High Court upheld the bid of the further territory justice saying it was "well-reasoned" and did not endure from immoderate infirmity oregon mistake of law.
