<span style="color: #222222;">Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued a lookout notice against former Home Minister of Maharashtra and NCP leader Anil Deshmukh. </span><br />''<br />''The notice was issued in connection with a 100 crore rupees-money laundering case that forced him to resign as a minister. The lookout circular was issued to prevent Deshmukh from fleeing the country. He has skipped numerous summons issued by the investigation agency.<br />''<br />''The Supreme Court had refused to give him interim respite from coercive action in the lawsuit last month.<br />''<br />''The ED's case against Deshmukh and others was registered after the CBI filed a corruption case against him based on an accusation of a 100 crore rupees bribe accumulated by him. Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh had levelled the charge.<br />''Based on a Bombay High Court ruling, the CBI launched an FIR against Deshmukh on April 21. Deshmukh, who resigned in April in the wake of the allegations, has repeatedly denied any misconduct.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">The ED had arrested Anil Deshmukh's personal secretary and personal assistant following raids in Mumbai and Nagpur on them and the NCP leader. His son-in-law was previously questioned by the CBI regarding the leak of an inquiry report.</span><br />