The Enforcement Directorate (ED), Chandigarh has provisionally attached properties worth approximately ₹14.06 crore under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002 in connection with an ongoing investigation into a disproportionate assets (DA) case against retired IAS officer ML Tayal and others.
The Central agency, in a post on X, formerly Twitter, said on Tuesday in Hindi that “the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Chandigarh, on 30 June 2025, provisionally attached properties under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, in connection with an ongoing investigation into a disproportionate assets case against ML Tayal (retired IAS officer) and others.”
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“Tayal served as the Principal Secretary to the then Chief Minister of Haryana and as a member of the Competition Commission of India. The attached assets include nine immovable properties comprising two houses and seven apartments located in Chandigarh, New Delhi, and Gurugram, along with bank balances amounting to approximately ₹14.06 crore.”
Tayal, who served as the Principal Secretary to the then Chief Minister of Haryana from March 2005 to October 2009, was also a member of the Competition Commission of India. He held several key positions during his bureaucratic career.