The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) :

 The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) :



The Directorate of Enforcement, with its headquarters at New Delhi, is headed by the Director of Enforcement. There are five regional offices at Mumbai, Chennai, Chandigarh, Kolkata and Delhi headed by Special Directors of Enforcement.

Zonal offices of the Directorate are at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Kochi, Delhi, Panaji, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jalandhar, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Patna and Srinagar. These are headed by a Joint Director.

The Directorate has sub-zonal offices at Bhubaneshwar, Kozhikode, Indore, Madurai, Nagpur, Allahabad, Raipur, Dehradun, Ranchi, Surat, Shimla, Vishakhapatnam and Jammu which are headed by a Deputy Director.

The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) is a law enforcement agency and economic intelligence agency responsible for enforcing economic laws and fighting economic crime in India. It is part of the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance and Government of India. It is composed of officers from the Indian Revenue Service, Indian Corporate Law Service, Indian Police Service and the Indian Administrative Service as well as promoted officers from its own cadre. The origin of this Directorate goes back to 1 May 1956, when an ‘Enforcement Unit’ was formed, in Department of Economic Affairs, for handling Exchange Control Laws violations under Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947. In the year 1957, this Unit was renamed as ‘Enforcement Directorate’. Sanjay Kumar Mishra former Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, New Delhi was appointed as ED chief in the rank of Secretary to Government of India.

The prime objective of the Enforcement Directorate is the enforcement of two key Acts of the Government of India namely, the Foreign Management Act 1999 (FEMA) and the Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002 (PMLA).

The ED's (Enforcement Directorate) official website enlists its other objectives which are primarily linked to checking money laundering in India. In fact this is an investigation agency so providing the complete details on public domain is against the rules of GOI.

For the trial of an offence punishable under section 4 of PMLA, the Central Government (in consultation with the Chief Justice of the High Court), designates one or more Sessions Court as Special Court(s). The court is also called "PMLA Court". Any appeal against any order passed by PMLA court can directly be filed in the High Court for that jurisdiction.

 

LIST OF INDIAN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES:

All India Radio Monitoring Service

Aviation Research Centre

Central Bureau of Investigation

Central Economic Intelligence Bureau

Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre (India)

Criminal Investigation Department (India)

Directorate of Enforcement

Department of Criminal Intelligence

Directorate of Air Intelligence

Directorate of Military Intelligence

Directorate of Naval Intelligence

Directorate General of Income Tax Investigation

Defence Intelligence Agency

Directorate of Income Tax (Intelligence and Criminal Investigation)

Directorate of Revenue Intelligence

Economic Intelligence Council

Indian Political Intelligence Office

Intelligence Bureau

Investigation Division of the Central Board of Direct Taxes

Joint Cipher Bureau

Narcotics Control Bureau

National Investigation Agency

National Technical Research Organization

Radio Research Centre

Regional Economic Intelligence Committee

Research and Analysis Wing

Serious Fraud Investigation Office

Signals Intelligence Directorate

Thuggee Dacoity Department

Wildlife Crime Control Bureau


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