I-T searches reveal large-scale fund routing in Karnataka’s cooperative banks
Ministry of Finance said many incriminating pieces of evidence -- hard copy documents and soft copy data -- had been found and were seized during the search exercise.
Sacked Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu P Rama Mohana Rao on Tuesday blamed the centre of ‘constitutional assault’ over Income-Tax raids conducted at his house, adding he still continues to hold the position.
“It is a constitutional assault on chief secretary’s house. I am still the Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu,” Rao said.
Rubbishing the documents found at his place, Rao charged the I-T department of conducting unauthorized search at his premises.
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I was surprised to see that my name was not there in search warrant and despite that they raided my house and claimed they found secret documents,” he said.
He further said the search was conducted in his son’s name, who is accused of involvement in money laundering along with businessman J Sekhar Reddy.
The I-T department raided the former chief secretary’s house and office premises on December 21. A day later, Rao was replaced by Girija Vaidhyanathan.
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