The Income Tax Department carried out major search and seizure operations across Kolkata and other parts of the state on Monday morning. Raids began around 7 am and covered several prominent business establishments, including Shrachi BTL and McNally Bharat.
According to reports, searches were conducted at nearly twenty locations across the state as part of the coordinated operation. Sources aware of the development said that the search operations are underway based on charges of income tax evasion and a Disproportionate Assets to known source of income case filed against the businessman and the entity owned by him earlier.
During the last couple of months, there had been a series of raids and search operations by the officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in different parts of West Bengal in relation to several money laundering cases. Now, the IT officials, too, have become active in the state.