Condemning the raids, the TDP said it was "pure political vendetta" as Ramesh had been vociferously fighting for the state's causes in Parliament.
The searches are linked to suspected movement of hawala money during the ongoing polls season and tax evasion.
Income Tax department officials on Monday carried out raids at the residences and offices of actresses Priyanka Chopra and Katrina Kaif for suspected tax evasion.
The raids that were launched at 22 premises of the group and the brokers on September 28 are underway, the statement by the Central Board of Direct Taxes said.
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The Central Board of Direct Taxes has issued new directives for selection of scrutiny cases during the financial year 2013-14 by the taxman which also includes big ticket international transactions.
Income Tax officials on Friday carried out simultaneous raids on the residences and offices of Malayalam superstars Mammootty and Mohanlal in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
Income Tax officials on Friday carried out simultaneous raids on the residences and offices of Malayalam superstars Mammootty and Mohanlal in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
'We always know on whose house the raid was conducted, and how much money was recovered.' 'We never know what happens inside when the raid is going on.'
The Madhya Pradesh government suspended an Indian Administrative Service officer couple following Income Tax raids at their official residence that unearthed Rs 3.1 crore in cash which was disproportionate to their known sources of income, official sources said.
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The Income Tax Department and Tamil Nadu Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption officials raided houses and business establishments of former Chief Minister Pannerselvam and a former Minister Anitha Radhakrishnan.
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The income-tax department has detected "unaccounted" transactions and investments worth more than Rs 100 crore after it raided two Jharkhand Congress MLAs, their alleged associates and linked coal and iron ore businesses across the state last week.
Sleuths from the Income Tax department on Wednesday raided five premises of three private education institutions in and around Nagpur as part of the state-wide action.
Ironically, the IT raid has happened at a time when Nadiadwala's least unsuccessful film Tamasha is in the theatres.
Finnish handset maker Nokia became the centre of a tax scandal as a team of Indian Income-Tax officials on Tuesday raided its factory near Chennai on charges of alleged tax evasion worth Rs 3,000 crore (30 billion).
IT department sources said the raids were being conducted in over 100 places in different parts of the state.
Pawar had told the media on the day of the raids that the tax searches were also carried out at the premises of his three sisters, one living in Kolhapur district and two in Pune district of Maharashtra.
The income tax department on Wednesday conducted a survey operation against Delhi-based think-tank Centre for Policy Research (CPR) and global NGO Oxfam India apart from a media foundation as part of a probe related to alleged FCRA contravention in funds received by them, official sources said.
A search operation was launched in the office block and a room used by jailed and deposed All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader V K Sasikala
The income tax department has widened its tax evasion probe against actor Sonu Sood as it raided multiple premises in Mumbai, Nagpur and Jaipur on Friday, official sources said.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday raided a dozen locations including the head office of the Congress party-owned National Herald newspaper in New Delhi as part of an ongoing money laundering probe, officials said.
Jharkhand Congress in-charge Avinash Pandey on Sunday said that a clarification has been sought from party MP Dheeraj Sahu in connection with the recovery of huge cash from premises linked to him.
I-T sleuths are raiding 130 premises of the business houses in the cities of Chennai, Hyderabad, Thrissur and other locations in Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Delhi and West Bengal, I-T sources said.
Patel said the I-T raids on the Congress minister shows the utter desperation and frustration of the BJP.
The value of assets seized during raids by the Income Tax Department has more than doubled in last five years, as the department started going after the 'big fish'.
The country-wide raids by the Income Tax teams on properties allegedly owned by former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda and his associates continued for the second day on Sunday.
Searches were also conducted at the residential premises of top company officials, the source said.
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While there has been no official statement related to the action, British government sources said they are 'closely monitoring reports of tax surveys conducted at the offices of the BBC in India'.
The Income Tax department are conducting raids at the Chinnakurli residence of Janata Dal-Secular leader and Karnataka Minor Irrigation Minister CS Puttaraju in Mandya
Taking part in a debate on the motion of confidence moved by the new 'mahagathbandhan' government, Yadav accused the BJP of having tried to 'break' Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's party in a bid to 'wipe out socialist ideology'.
In an editorial in its mouthpiece 'Saamana', the erstwhile ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party questioned if financial transactions of film personalities who openly support the government at the Centre were clean and transparent.
The Congress unit described Ramesh's suicide an outcome of "targeted harassment" of their rank and cadre to keep them away from the party.
The income tax department on Wednesday conducted raids in multiple states as part of a pan-India tax evasion probe against certain registered unrecognised political parties (RUPP) and their alleged dubious financial transactions, official sources said.
NCP president Sharad Pawar on Friday reiterated that the Income Tax Department's raids on Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar's relatives and aides came after his comparison of the Lakhimpur Kheri violence in Uttar Pradesh to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre during the British rule.
Former Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary P Rama Mohana Rao, whose house and office were searched by Income Tax officials in connection with a tax evasion probe post demonetisation, was on Saturday admitted to a private hospital here after he complained of chest pain.
The income tax department has conducted searches at the office and residential premises owned by cricketer Gautam Gambhir's family in New Delhi for alleged tax evasion. Sleuths of the department conducted raids on Wednesday on at least five premises owned by Gambhir's family, and seized cash, jewellery, share certificates and some incriminating documents.
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