Rs 300 crore found from the hideouts of Congress MP in Jharkhand: It will take 2 more days to count the notes
Rs 300 crore found from the hideouts of Congress MP in Jharkhand: It will take 2 more days to count the notes; Counting is being done with 40 small and big machines
Till Saturday, the Income Tax Department has received cash worth more than Rs 300 crore from 10 locations of Congress MP Dheeraj Sahu and his close associates in three states of Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal. In the case of tax evasion, raids were started on his house, office and factory on Wednesday 6 December. Dheeraj is a Rajya Sabha member from Jharkhand. According to Income Tax officials, this is the largest amount ever recovered in a single operation.
The Income Tax Department has received this cash from locations located in Titlagarh, Bolangir and Sambalpur in Odisha. On Saturday, December 8, 40 big and small machines have been installed to count the notes. The counting of notes is still going on. Director General of Income Tax Department, Sanjay Bahadur, while going to Delhi, told the media at Bhubaneswar Airport that the amount of cash is so high that it will take two more days to count. Only after this can information on this be given officially.
The Income Tax Department started the raid on Wednesday 6 December. Till December 7, 30 cupboards full of currency notes were found in the office of liquor manufacturing company Baldev Sahu and Group of Companies. In 9 of these, bundles of notes of Rs 500, 200 and 100 were seized. Many bags filled with notes were also found.
However, the IT team did not give information about how much cash was there. The lockers are yet to be opened. By Thursday evening, cash worth Rs 260 crore had been received. After this this amount kept increasing.
After this, on Friday, the Income Tax Department recovered Rs 8 crore from the house of Sanjay Sahu and Deepak Sahu, who handle liquor business in Titlagarh, Odisha. A huge amount of money was also seized from the premises of rice miller and transporter Rajkishore Jaiswal.
A raid was conducted late evening on Friday at Rice Mill and Boudh Distillery Private Limited in Boudh district of Odisha. There is news of cash being found from here also.
Raid in Boudh Distilleries Private Limited Company and its associated premises in Odisha.
Locations of Baldev Sahu & Group of Companies (It is the partnership firm of Boudh Distillery).
At the corporate office and residence of the officials of Boudh Distillery in Bhubaneswar.
The residences of two liquor traders from Sudapada of Bolangir and Titlagarh.
Sushila Niketan residence located on Radium Road, Ranchi. Residence of MP Dheeraj Sahu located in Lohardaga.
