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After Kochi raid, IT looks to raid in Nagaland

After Kochi raid, IT looks to raid in Nagaland

India Blooms News Service | | 11 Jun 2017, 08:13 pm
Guwahati, June 11 (IBNS): Several politicians and bureaucrats of Nagaland now are under Income Tax (IT) department scanner after the IT unearthed over Rs 1000 crore of an ex- Nagaland police official owned group in Kochi in Kerala.

IT officials are likely to raid several places in Nagaland soon.

A top IT official said some politicians and bureaucrats of Nagaland could have made benami investments in the Kerala-based Sreevalsa group owned by a retired Additional Superintendent of Police in Nagaland service MKR Pillai.

Recently, over Rs 1000 crore illegal fund of the group was detected in the IT raids.

The IT official said the illegal investments in the group could exceed over Rs 3000 crore.

“We have found various documents of the group. The documents are indicating of illegal investment. We are looking it from all round of corners,” the top IT official said.

Meanwhile, a reliable source of Nagaland said that several politicians and top officials of Nagaland police had invested their black money in the group.

Pillai, who had joined in Nagaland police as a constable, retired as an Additional Superintendent of Police.

“After retirement, he was appointed as consultant of Nagaland police and it had done by political influence,” the source said.

 

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)

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