ED takes Tamil Nadu Minister K.N. Nehru’s brother Ravichandran to office for questioning

Police personnel stand guard during a search at house of Tamil Nadu Municipal Administration Minister and senior DMK leader K.N. Nehru in Thillai Nagar, Tiruchirappalli on April 7, 2025.

The Enforcement Directorate searches against the family of Tamil Nadu Municipal Administration Minister and senior DMK leader K.N. Nehru continued for the second day on Tuesday (April 8, 2025), with the central probe agency taking his businessman brother K.N. Ravichandran to its office for questioning, official sources said.

The action was launched on Monday (April 7, 2025) at multiple locations in Chennai, Tiruchirappalli and Coimbatore.

The searches are continuing and Mr. Ravichandran has been taken to the ED office in Chennai for recording of his statement, the sources said.

The probe pertains to an alleged ₹22 crore worth bank loan fraud linked to a real-estate entity named TVH Group, promoted by Mr. Ravichandran, the sources said earlier.

The CBI filed an FIR in this case in 2021.

The premises of the Minister, whose son Arun Nehru is a Lok Sabha MP, were also covered in the searches.

The ED is also investigating loan funds allegedly routed to a trust “controlled” by the family, as per the sources. They said some more financial transactions and “complaints” filed against the realty group are under the agency scanner.

Premises linked to the probe in Tiruchirappalli, the hometown of Mr. K.N. Nehru, were covered on Monday (April 7, 2025).

Reacting to the searches, Tamil Nadu Law Minister S. Regupathy on Monday (April 7, 2025) slammed the BJP-led Central government, alleging that the “ED is an ally of the BJP, just like the parties of Chandrababu Naidu (TDP) and Nitish Kumar (JD-U)“.

“We regard the ED as its (BJP) ally and nothing more,” Mr. Regupathy told reporters, terming the agency a “non-political partner”.

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