The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Barbie Jain and Pulkit Jain, the wife and brother of Pratik Jain, co-founder and director of the political consultancy firm I-PAC, for questioning in a money laundering case linked to alleged hawala transactions. They are required to appear before the agency at its headquarters in New Delhi. The investigation has drawn attention to their business connections, although specific details have not been disclosed. I-PAC has been involved in assisting the ruling Trinamool Congress party in West Bengal. This development comes on the heels of the ED's arrest of another I-PAC co-founder, Vinesh Chandel, as part of the same investigation, which also ties into an alleged coal scam in the poll-bound state. Pratik Jain himself has faced scrutiny, having been summoned previously by the ED and challenging the summons in the Delhi High Court. The agency had conducted raids at both his residence and the I-PAC office in Kolkata earlier this year.