Former Aviation Minister Praful Patel was questioned throughout Monday by officials of the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the alleged losses suffered by Air India, while Patel was in office. The questioning, which started at around 10.30 am, went on till late into the evening.
“After the arrest of kingpin Deepak Talwar, the ED conducted multiple raids at his workplaces and seized substantial hardware. Certain e-mails, seized from the hard disks, exchanged between Talwar and his various offshore offices have a mention of a certain ‘Minister Patel’,” claimed an ED official.