A total of Rs 353 crore in cash has been found in the income tax raid from locations linked to Congress MP Dheeraj Sahu. It took a total of five days to count these rupees. This counting was completed on Sunday night.
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A total of Rs 353 crore in cash has been found in the income tax raid from locations linked to Congress MP Dheeraj Sahu. It took a total of five days to count these rupees. This counting was completed on Sunday night.
During this time, many IT officials and bank employees sat for hours and counted wads of notes. Income Tax had started raids five days ago on distillery groups in three states including Odisha on charges of tax evasion. This is the highest cash seizure in the country so far in history. After receiving crores of rupees, BJP has become an attacker on Congress. They are protesting by protesting at many places.
Till Sunday night, bank officials at three branches of State Bank of India in Bolangir, Titlagarh and Sambalpur had counted around Rs 353 crore by deploying more than 3 dozen counting machines and 80 officials. Bhagat Behera, regional manager, SBI Bolangir, said, “The amount of cash counted by the staff in the last 3 days is more than they have counted in a year. There were 176 bags of Rs 100, 200 and 500 notes, which were found in two “The liquor was brought from the company’s office in Sudapada area of Bolangir city to the SBI main branch in Bolangir a day ago. The employees were suffering from fatigue and machine malfunction. They have been busy counting the entire day and night except toilet breaks.”
SBI officials said frequent breakdown of the machines affected the counting process as they were not meant to work non-stop. The machines stopped working, so we had to keep 40 machines on stand-by. Many currency notes got stuck to each other due to mold and hence we had to use a dryer to separate the notes. While the counting was going on in banks, I-T officials raided the country liquor distilleries of Bunty Sahu and Rajesh Sahu, who are close to the family members of Baldev Sahu & Group of Companies, which owns a distillery plant besides one in Odisha. Has and operates. IT officials said they are interrogating Bunty Sahu and Rajesh Sahu to find out why so much cash was kept in Sudapada area of Bolangir.
IT officials are also trying to find out the involvement of state excise officials, as during the raid they found a polythene packet containing Rs 5 lakh notes, with the name ‘Inspector Tiwari’ written on the packet. An IT official said, “We think the person could be either from the excise department or the local police. We will interrogate the excise department officials.” Meanwhile, politics has heated up over the record cash seizure and BJP in Jharkhand has protested at all the district headquarters of the state demanding the intervention of the central investigating agency. Demanding arrest, MLA CP Singh said, “Corruption is in the DNA of the Congress. Congress leaders are engaged in corruption competition. The Congress has used this money for horse-trading after the announcement of election results in three states recently. And the resort would have been reserved for politics.” Apart from this, state BJP spokesperson Shahdev also reiterated the same point and said, “ED and CBI should also come forward in this whole matter and strictly interrogate MP Dheeraj Sahu.” He said, “When just one Congress MP has billions in cash, imagine how many trillions must have been embezzled by the entire party.”
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