I-T searches premises of jewelers in Varanasi, Jaunpur districts

I-T searches premises of jewelers in Varanasi, Jaunpur districts

The Income-Tax Department on Monday conducted searches on gold merchants and local business associates allegedly linked to the Samajwadi Party in Varanasi and Jaunpur districts of poll-bound Uttar Pradesh. “Fifty officials have been deployed. The raids are based on workable intelligence inputs of suspected hawala transactions and continued till evening,” a senior official privy to … Read more

I-T raids Kerala evangelist, his churches’ group on charges of siphoning donations meant for poor

I-T raids Kerala evangelist, his churches’ group on charges of siphoning donations meant for poor

NEW DELHI: The Income-tax department has raided multiple premises of a self-styled evangelist from Kerala that allegedly “siphoned off” tax exempted funds and donations received from abroad for the poor and channeled them into real estate and personal investments, the CBDT said on Friday. The searches were carried out on Thursday at 66 premises in … Read more