<h1>Ruling-party legislator caught fleeing during ED searches over alleged school recruitment irregularities; phones recovered for forensics</h1> A ruling-party legislator was apprehended while allegedly attempting to flee his residence during Enforcement Directorate searches of properties linked to him in connection with alleged irregularities in school recruitments; searches also targeted his in-laws' homes and a personal assistant's residence. Officials say he scaled a boundary wall, was chased and caught in a field, and threw mobile phones into a pond-both later recovered for forensic examination. The legislator is being interrogated. The ED's action stems from information about a monetary transaction; the ED probes money-laundering aspects while a separate criminal investigation by the CBI is ongoing, following the legislator's earlier arrest and subsequent bail.