Previously, the ED had arrested former INLD legislator Dilbag Singh and one of his associates in the same case. 

Saini recently defeated his main rival, Congress's Tarlochan Singh to win the by-poll for the Karnal Assembly seat, which party colleague Manohar Lal Khattar earlier held. 

Rakesh Daultabad had won the Badshahpur seat in the 2019 assembly elections as an independent candidate and later supported the BJP government. He had also contested from Badshahpur in 2009 and 2014 but lost.