After the two central agencies, the CBI and ED, now it is turn of the Income Tax department to put a squeeze on the alleged unaccounted cash and disproportionate assets through marathon raids for last two days at properties of a councillor and MIC (member mayor-in-council) of the ruling Trinamul Congress.
The properties included the office, a rice mill, and the hotel of Jangipur, Murshidabad’s leader. The unique high points of the I-T raid was that the search operation continued for more than 30 hours today, beginning Wednesday at a hotel allegedly owned by the Ward 54 councillor and member mayor-in-council of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Amiruddin Bobby, a source claimed, to unearth an alleged source of disproportionate assets of the corporator’s known sources of income and to find out the alleged source of unaccounted cash, worth Rs 15 cr that was unearthed by the I-T officials following a raid at the residence of Zakir Hossein, Jangipur, MLA of the ruling party.
While the I-T officials are tight-lipped on the issue of raids at the hotel, sources said the search happened after a tip-off.
Though the lawmaker in question, tried to justify the alleged cash stash by saying it was to remit the wages of bidi workers and farm labourers through purchasing paddy, I-T officials, however, sniff something fishy in amassing these alleged unaccounted cash at his residence.