Bhopal, June 22, 2012 (HMNS): On the second day after the Income
Tax sleuths raided 60 premises of two businessmen associated with the ruling
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the officials continued the property assessment
process.
The IT officials recovered Rs 1.5
crore more cash amounting to the total cash to Rs 6.5 crore so far. Besides,
gold jewellery worth Rs 10 crore have been recovered so far from the possession
of both the businessmen—Dilip Suryavanshi and Sudhir Sharma.
Besides cash and ornaments, the
department has found 20 lockers of both the persons. They are likely to be
opened from next week.
Meanwhile, the State Government
that is surprised with the raids has started collecting details of the IT
searches. Additional DG Intelligence Vivek Johari on Thursday called on senior
IT officials and tried to know the details of the investigation conducted so
far. He met with three officials and then left the office.
Since, the business of both the
businessmen registered unprecedented growth in the past few years, it is
considered that without nexus with the State Government and the officials in
different departments, it was not possible. Following this, the State
Government is taking these raids seriously.
IT sources claimed that a haul of
documents that indicate these businessmen's relations with the politicians and
the officials. Besides sensitive note-sheets related to transfers of officials
and Government files, the IT sleuths have also recovered documents related to
the proposed master plan.
From the premises of Sudhir
Sharma, who deals in higher education, mining and medicine sectors, the
officials recovered documents related to medicines and dalia. The IT Department
has now decided to investigate as why the contracts related to mining were
given to Sharma only and the road construction works to Suryavanshi only.
In the past two days, the IT
officials have found concrete evidence of tax evasion by both the businessmen.
The teams that had raided premises in Mumbai and Kolkata found that bogus firms
were used for tax evasion.
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