Raids on a senior Uttar Pradesh bureaucrat have uncovered an enormous haul of unaccounted money and jewellery. Income Tax officials have allegedly found around 10 crores in cash and 10 kg gold amid raids on Keshav Lal, a Kanpur-based additional commissioner of Sales Tax, who has a house in Noida near Delhi.
In raids over the state, taxmen additionally looked four properties claimed by a previous top official in the Noida Authority.
The searches, which are a part of a major crackdown on tax evaders in the government, have produced around Rs. 20 crore till now, say authorities.
Four bureaucrats based in Uttar Pradesh and neighboring Uttarakhand have been raided over the last three days.
A general manager of the Uttar Pradesh Rajkiya Nirman Nigam in Dehradun has additionally been raided for allegedly “misusing his official position” and hoarding untaxed money, A news agency cited sources as revealing. The official allegedly has a fleet of cars including a Range Rover, an Audi and a BMW other than 15 large LED TVs in a farm house allegedly constructed on a land meant for a factory. The farmhouse has a well-equipped gym, a guest house and a swimming pool.
“Documents showing undisclosed investments in farm houses and immovable properties in different cities have been seized,” a senior official says, including, “The department is probing tax evasion to the tune of a couple of crores against the official and his associates based in Rishikesh.”
In another search on a local body chairman in UP, tax officials have detected around 10 crores in black or untaxed cash.
“The Chairman owns two petrol pumps and a gas organization and has been found to be allegedly diverting development grants for personal benefits,” an authority said.
A senior official in Noida and a UP road transport department officer in Kanpur were additionally raided.
“The Noida officer was found to have made unaccounted cash payments for purchase of immovable properties worth more than Rs. 2 crore for the name of his spouse,” the authority said.
Over Rs. 540 crore black money has been detected by the Income Tax department in the last 15 days as part of its nation-wide drive to check tax evasion.
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