Raids at 22 places to unearth Rs 1,000 crore benami deals
The Income Tax (I-T) officials stormed 22 premises of prominent businessmen, real estate agents and son of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP P C Gupta in Delhi, Gurugram, Rewari and a few places in New Delhi to collect evidence against benami land deals linked to RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav and his children — Tejashwi Yadav, Tej Pratap Yadav and Misa Bharti.
More than 26 cars carrying 100 tax officials raided and surveyed the premises across Delhi and National Capital Region — Gurugram and Rewari.
“This is the part of our investigation, and it is connected to Lalu Prasad about the benami land deals and cases of tax evasion as well,” an I-T official told DNA, on condition of anonymity.
I-T sources also said they are collecting the evidence against alleged beneficiaries – Lalu Yadav, his son-in-law Shailesh Kumar and son of PC Gupta – in this case. Recently, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had alleged that Lalu Prasad’s daughter Misa Bharti, a Rajya Sabha MP, and her husband Shailesh Kumar were involved in benami land deals to the tune of Rs1,000 crore, and demanded an investigation into it.
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