Updated On: 01 December, 2022 02:50 PM IST | New Delhi | Agencies
The case emerges from a March 2017 ruling of the Supreme Court ordering that vehicles not compliant with BS-IV emission norms shouldn’t be sold or registered in India from April 1, 2017, the ED said

A spokesperson for Ashok Leyland said the probe was not against the company but ‘third-party scarp customer’. Representation pic/AFP
The ED said Wednesday it has attached assets worth more than Rs 22 crore of former Andhra Pradesh TDP MLA J C Prabhakar Reddy, his associates and companies linked to them in a case related to an alleged BS-IV vehicles scam.
The ED said it was also probing the role of major automobile manufacturer Ashok Leyland, headquartered in Chennai, in the case. A spokesperson for Ashok Leyland said the investigation was not against the company but “third-party scarp customer”.