IT raid on Dhiraj Sahu: Total cash seized amounts to Rs. 353 crores
The IT raid on Dhiraj Sahu in Odisha entered day 5 and the counting of notes has finally ended. The cash seized amounted to Rs. 353 crores.
Bhubaneswar: The IT raid on Dhiraj Sahu in Odisha entered day 5 and the counting of notes has finally ended. The cash seized amounted to Rs. 353 crores.
It is worth mentioning here that the raid is said to be one of the biggest raids ever by the Income Tax Department. The cash is said to be linked to Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Dhiraj Sahu. The amount was fixed at a whooping Rs 353 crore figure.
Sources say, counting machines and manpower had been engaged at the State Bank of India (SBI) Main Branch in Balangir. A team of officials continued with the counting of the cash in a total 176 bags seized during raids on premises of linked to Congress Rajya Sabha MP Dhiraj Sahu.
The Income Tax Department had deployed about 40 large and small machines and had brought in more department staff and bank staffers.
Yesterday, the Income Tax teams had seized three more bags of cash from Dheeraj Sahu’s premises in Ranchi, the capital city of Jharkhand. While it is worth mentioning here that nearly 19 bags of money were seized from the house of his manager in charge of the maintenance of liquor factories in various areas of Odisha. The amount recovered from manager’s house was expected to cross Rs 20 crore.
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