I-T Raids

The Income Tax (I-T) Department was conducting searches at multiple locations in Hyderabad on Friday

The Income Tax department was conducting raids at the offices and buildings of some reputed private educational institutes in Bengaluru on Thursday

The Income-Tax department has recovered Rs 8 crore in cash and three kilogram gold besides incriminating documents in raids on the premises of businessman Shankar Rai and his brothers in MP

Financial intelligence teams probing the recovery of around Rs 200 crore during raids in Kanpur-Kannuj have now found that perfume and compound businessman Piyush Jain has links across 50 countries

According to sources, the smartphone companies were allegedly violating rules and norms to evade taxes and were on the radar of several probe agencies, including the I-T department

The first group is engaged in digital marketing and campaign management while the second group searched is engaged in solid waste management

The Income Tax Department has widened its tax evasion probe against actor Sonu Sood as it raided multiple premises in Mumbai, Nagpur and Jaipur on Friday, official sources said. The department had launched the action against the 48-year-old actor and some people linked to him on Wednesday and the action continued. The searches have now been extended to more locations in Mumbai, Nagpur and Jaipur, they said. On Wednesday, the action was carried out in at least half a dozen locations in the metropolitan city and Lucknow. A real estate deal and some other financial transactions linked to Sood are under the scanner of the department, official sources had said. The actor grabbed the national spotlight for helping migrants reach their home states during the nationwide lockdown clamped last year in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Delhi government, led by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, had recently declared that Sood will be the brand ambassador of the Aam Aadmi Party government'

Raids also at Bharat Samachar offices

Seek action under black money and benami laws for non-disclosure

Sitharaman on Friday said the same persons were raided in 2013 as well, but no issue was made out then as it is being done now.

Searches are being carried out in various medical colleges in Karnataka by IT sleuths

The I-T dept questioned Robert Vadra for about four hours on the second consecutive day on Tuesday in connection with its probe against him under the benami assets law, official sources said

This was because additions were made related to transactions based on the documents found, which were disclosed by the assessee

I-T dept has seized a number of documents and computer peripherals and has recovered about Rs 60-70 lakh cash from multiple premises in the Delhi-NCR region till now

In their crackdown on these Chinese companies, the tax authorities launched an extensive search operation at 21 premises across Delhi, Ghaziabad and Gurugram

The move will help the department shore up revenue, clear backlogs, and resume probe in pending matters.

The raids come at a time when Rajasthan is witnessing an intense power tussle between Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his deputy Sachin Pilot.

IT department's clarification came after Congress termed the raids as 'political witch-hunt of BJP

The raid was also carried out at the residence of Shivakumar's father -in-law today

These persons were depriving the state government of legitimate revenue by suppressing sales and non-deposit of local taxes collected