The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is examining a real estate transaction worth Rs 121 crore between Essential Hospitality (EHPL), a Dewan Housing Finance (DHFL) associate group firm, and Charak Pharma, an entity controlled by Raj Shroff, son-in-law of Sushilkumar Shinde, former Maharashtra chief minister and ex-Union home minister.
The agency learnt of this commercial deal in a search operation on the premises of Dheeraj Realty and DHFL last week. The search was in connection with a loan of Rs 2,186 crore to Sunblink Real Estate; the latter is under the probe agency’s lens for property dealing with the late Iqbal Memon, an