A report in The Wire on Friday, 22 November, said the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) took a large donation from a company that is now being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for facilitating “terror funding” and carrying out transactions with 1993 blast accused Iqbal Mirchi. Mirchi is also a close aide of mafia don Dawood Ibrahim.

“In 2014-15, RKW, which is associated with the beleaguered Dewan Housing Finance Limited (DHFL), gave Rs 10 crore to the party” the report says, adding that this is the “highest donation given to the party from an individual company.”

There is another interesting aspect to this case. The Wadhawan family, who are the promoters of RKW and DHFL also happens to be the same family whose members are being probed by the Mumbai Police’s Economic Offences Wing in connection with the Rs 4,355-crore Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank Scam.

The promoters of DHFL – Dheeraj Wadhawan and Kapil Wadhawan – are the sons of late Rajesh Wadhawan, whose brother Rakesh Wadhawan was arrested by Mumbai police last month along with his son Sarang.