Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday said that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) was being used as a tool to terrorise and silence political opponents, reported the PTI.

Sharad Pawar was responding to a query on grandnephew and party MLA Rohit Pawar getting summons from the ED to appear before the agency on January 24 for questioning as part of its money laundering probe into the alleged Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSCB) scam, as per the PTI.