Maharashtra (The Stellar News) Saksham Kalia: Income Tax department in a movie like scene raid seized Rs 390cr worth assets in Maharashtra’s Jalna, complete with officials disguised as a wedding party. Total seizure of assets include Rs 56 crore in cash, 32 Kgs of gold, and diamonds worth Rs 14 crore, besides other property documents and digital data.
The IT department used 120 vehicles for the raids and about 260 police officials were divided into multiple teams for the raids. As the raids were conducted in premises, warehouses and farmhouses related to two business groups dealing in the steel, clothing and real state.
The IT department used 120 vehicles on August 3, but the vehicles left separately so that no one was alerted about the raid. The vehicles were also decorated to give them look of a wedding possession vehicles.
Some of the vehicles even carried boards reading “Dulhan hum le jayenge”- the title of a popular Hindi movie from 2000 often used in cars carrying the groom.
Around 250 Income Tax and police officers left in the guise of “baarati“, or wedding parties, to conduct the raids.
