It is nothing but political vendetta,” former Mumbai police chief Sanjay Pandey on Wednesday told a Delhi court, which sent him to the Enforcement Directorate’s custody for nine days for further interrogation in a money laundering case.

The ED is investigating him for allegedly tapping the phones of National Stock Exchange (NSE) employees between 2009 and 2017 in connivance with its top officials, for which his firm got Rs 4.54 crore. The case is based on an FIR filed by the CBI. The agency arrested Pandey on Tuesday and produced him before a Delhi court on Wednesday. The ED told the court that Pandey resigned in April 2000 and that there was litigation against him between 2001 and 2006 in relation to his services. He also moved voluntary retirement in 2007 and withdrew it in 2008, it added.