Around 250 officials from the Income Tax Department dressed as “Corona warriors” to raid over 20 locations, including the company and residential premises, of two individuals, including a builder, in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal in the wee hours of Thursday.
I-T officials conducted searches on the properties belonging to Raghvendra Singh Tomar, the owner of Faith Builders, and Piyush Gupta. Tomar is considered to be close to a powerful MP cabinet minister, who played an important role in the fall of Kamal Nath-led Congress government in the state in the month of March this year. The dramatic operation began at 5:30 am on Thursday. In order to avoid attention during the operation, the sleuths, disguised as “Corona warriors”, arrived at the properties in around 150 hired cars, bearing stickers that read: “Government of Madhya Pradesh Health Department COVID-19 team welcomes you.”
“Premises of business groups and their associates were searched by I-T officials and Special Armed forces (SAF) and home guards. Rs 1 crore was recovered from these premises besides documents,” a report said. The cumulative value of all these immovable properties could run into several hundred crores, a source told TOI.
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