Over Rs 220 crore in money has been recovered by the Income Tax division after it carried out raids linked to an Odisha-based distillery group in the final three days. According to stories, the Odisha-based liquor agency has hyperlinks with Congress Rajya Sabha MP from Jharkhand, Dhiraj Prasad Sahu. The money has been recovered from Boudh Distillery Private Limited (BDPL) in Odisha.
Several note-counting machines have been utilized by the IT sleuths to depend the overall amount of money recovered in the raids in the previous three days. The IT division raided practically half a dozen premises of Congress MP Dhiraj Prasad Sahu in Ranchi, Lohardaga and Odisha. Raids are additionally being carried out in West Bengal.Â
Several corporations have been linked to Sahu’s family members which embody Baldev Sahu Infra Private Limited (Fly Ash Bricks), Kwality Bottlers Private Limited and Kishore Prasad Bijay Prasad Beverages Private Limited.
The raids have been carried out at some homes, workplaces, and distillery at Sargipali in Sundargarh metropolis on Wednesday.
The IT group additionally searched the company workplace of Boudh Distillery Pvt Ltd at Palasapalli in Bhubaneswar, the homes of some firm officers, the corporate’s manufacturing unit and workplace in Boudh and the Ranisati Rice Mill.
Congress MP hails from distinguished enterprise household
Congress MP Dheeraj Sahu hails from a distinguished enterprise and political household of Jharkhand. He has been elected to the Rajya Sabha twice from the Congress.
PM Modi takes a dig at Opposition Â
As over Rs 200 crore have been recovered in raids, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit out at these concerned in corruption saying each penny looted must be returned.
Taking to X, previously Twitter, PM Modi wrote, “The countrymen should look at the pile of these notes and then listen to the honest ‘speeches’ of their leaders… Whatever has been looted from the public, every penny of it will have to be returned, this is Modi’s guarantee.”
Congress MP’s cellphone switched offÂ
The cell phone of Jharkhand MP Dheeraj Sahu, who allegedly has hyperlinks with the liquor firm, was found switched off when contacted, PTI reported. Employees in his Ranchi workplace mentioned that the MP just isn’t obtainable.
Continuing its raids, the Income Tax division on Friday found 156 bags of money throughout seek for the third consecutive day in locations linked to liquor agency on expenses of tax evasion, officers mentioned. From the bags, Rs 20 crore have been counted until now, taking the overall quantity to this point recovered to Rs 220 crore.
The division officers recovered as many as 156 bags containing money throughout the raid at Sudapada in Bolangir district on Friday.
“Of the 156 bags, only 6/7 were counted and the amount found was Rs 20 crore,” an official mentioned. The raids have been carried out at Sambalpur, Bolangir, Titilagarh, Boudh, Sundargarh, Rourkela and Bhubaneswar. The firm is but to supply any response to the raids.
BJP calls for CBI probe
Meanwhile, the Odisha unit of BJP at a press convention demanded a CBI probe into your entire episode and sought clarification from the ruling BJD in Odisha.
BJP spokesperson Manoj Mohapatra additionally confirmed pictures of a lady minister from Odisha’s western area, in which she was found sharing dais with one of many liquor merchants on whose premises the I-T raids are being carried out.
The BJP spokesperson claimed that this veracity of tax evasion couldn’t be potential with out lively assist and patronage of the native leaders and the state authorities.
He requested, “What were Odisha’s excise department, vigilance wing, intelligence wing and economic offence wing doing?” BJD MLA Satyanarayan Pradhan, nevertheless, rejected the allegation of the BJP and claimed that Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik hates corruption and believes in transparency.
“The people found guilty will certainly be punished as our CM always says that law will take its own course,” Pradhan mentioned.
Around Rs 200 crore in money was seized on Thursday throughout raids on the Bolangir workplace of Baldeo Sahu & Group of Companies, a serious nation liquor producer in western Odisha.
Former IT commissioner Sarat Chandra Dash mentioned that this could possibly be the biggest money seizure by the earnings tax division in Odisha to this point.
“I have never come across recovery such a huge amount of cash in the state,” Dash mentioned.
IT division DG Sanjay Bahadur reached Bhubaneswar on Thursday and monitoring your entire operations. No one was arrested in this connection.
With inputs from PTI, IANS
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