I-T raids entities involved in perfume trade in Uttar Pradesh other locations
New Delhi Dec 31 PTI The Income Tax department on Friday raided multiple premises linked to perfume traders and some others in Uttar Pradesh as part of a tax evasion investigation official sources saidThey said the searches are being conducted in Kanpur Kannauj the national capital region and few other places The department is searching multiple locations of some entities linked to the perfume trade and related businesses the sources saidThe exact identities of those raided were not confirmed by authoritiesThe Samajwadi Party claimed through a post on its official Twitter handle that the premises of its MLC Pushpraj alias Pampi Jain in Kannauj have been raidedIt said party chief Akhilesh Yadav had just called a press conference in Kannauj and hence the BJP government launched the raidsYadav had recently launched a perfume called Samajwadi ittra prepared by Jain in the run-up to the assembly polls in the state that are expected to be held early next yearThe Directorate General of GST Intelligence DGGI an investigation agency under the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs CBIC had recently carried out large-scale raids in Kanpur and Kannauj and arrested perfume trader Peeyush Jain and seized over Rs 197 crore cash apart from 26 kg gold and huge quantity of sandalwood oil The I-T department functions under the Central Board of Direct Taxes CBDT PTI NES DV DV
New Delhi Dec 31 PTI The Income Tax department on Friday raided multiple premises linked to perfume traders and some others in Uttar Pradesh as part of a tax evasion investigation official sources saidThey said the searches are being conducted in Kanpur Kannauj the national capital region and few other places The department is searching multiple locations of some entities linked to the perfume trade and related businesses the sources saidThe exact identities of those raided were not confirmed by authoritiesThe Samajwadi Party claimed through a post on its official Twitter handle that the premises of its MLC Pushpraj alias Pampi Jain in Kannauj have been raidedIt said party chief Akhilesh Yadav had just called a press conference in Kannauj and hence the BJP government launched the raidsYadav had recently launched a perfume called Samajwadi ittra prepared by Jain in the run-up to the assembly polls in the state that are expected to be held early next yearThe Directorate General of GST Intelligence DGGI an investigation agency under the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs CBIC had recently carried out large-scale raids in Kanpur and Kannauj and arrested perfume trader Peeyush Jain and seized over Rs 197 crore cash apart from 26 kg gold and huge quantity of sandalwood oil The I-T department functions under the Central Board of Direct Taxes CBDT PTI NES DV DV
