New Delhi: The Income Tax Department on Tuesday performed raids on the workplaces and residences of shut aides of Shiv Sena leaders and Maharashtra ministers Aaditya Thackeray and Anil Parab. The raids had been performed in Mumbai and Pune, ANI reported.
Before this, the IT Dept had performed raids on the workplaces and premises of varied BMC contractors and Shiv Sena leaders.
Last month, the Income Tax Department raided premises linked to a outstanding Shiv Sena corporator and his MLA spouse (corporator Yashwant Jadhav and his spouse Yamini Jadhav) for alleged tax evasion.
When requested concerning the raids, Aaditya Thackeray, who heads the setting and tourism departments, stated central companies had been getting used as a publicity equipment of the BJP and misused in different elements of the nation too.
“Central agencies (have been) misused in the past too – it happened in Bengal, Andhra Pradesh – and now, it is happening in Maharashtra. Central agencies have in a way become publicity machinery of BJP itself. Maharashtra will not bow down,” ANI quoted the MLA from Mumbai as saying.
Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut known as the transfer a tactic to pressurise and destablise the MVA authorities in Maharashtra. Raut additionally known as the ED “ATM of BJP”.
“Why are central agencies targetting a selected few from states like West Bengal and Maharashtra…don’t they get anybody else from other states, it’s a tactic to pressurise and destablise MVA government,” ANI quoted Sanjay Raut as saying.
“Some ED officials are contesting elections on BJP tickets, ED has become ATM of BJP and I have given records of extortion by these officers to the PM. Nexus of ED officers are extorting contractors, developers and builders,” he additional stated.
The Sena chief additionally stated the Mumbai Police would examine the legal syndicate and extortion racket run by a nexus of ED officers. “Mark my words, some of these ED officers will go to jail too,” he stated.
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