The Enforcement Directorate sealed the National Herald office , putting forth instructions that the premises are not be opened without prior permission from the agency. Additional police force have also been deployed outside the Congress headquarters in the national capital. Earlier on Tuesday, the ED had raided the publication’s head office and 11 other locations as part of an ongoing money laundering investigation.

According to officials, the searches were carried out under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to “gather additional evidence with regard to the trail of funds and they are against those entities who were involved in the National Herald-linked transactions”.