The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is conducting searches at 10 premises across Mumbai and Thane with links to Shiv Sena Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Pratap Sarnaik in a money laundering case.

Sarnaik is the MLA from the Ovala-Majiwada Vidhan Sabha constituency in Thane. He is also Shiv Sena's Maharashtra Spokesperson and the Communication Leader for Mira-Bhayandar area.

He was recently in the news after demanding that actor Kangana Ranaut be booked for sedition for comparing Mumbai to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

Maharashtra: Shiv Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik's residence and office in Thane being raided by officials of Enforcement Directorate.

Visuals from his residence. https://t.co/tjk81hxPn5pic.twitter.com/czcwIsuQR6

— ANI (@ANI) November 24, 2020

Maharashtra: Shiv Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik's residence and office in Thane are being raided by officials of Enforcement Directorate.

(File pic) pic.twitter.com/dTAbdEwdTn

— ANI (@ANI) November 24, 2020