Breaking News: Rs 10 crore cash recovered from the house of BSP MLA Umashankar Singh, the amount given to many officials is mentioned in the documents found.
Lucknow. The raid by the Income Tax team, which started on Wednesday, at the house of BSP’s lone MLA Umashankar Singh in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, ended on Thursday. Cash worth Rs 10 crore has been recovered from his house. Currently, action is going on at his office and other places. The action has been completed at his residence in Vipulkhand.
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On Wednesday, the Income Tax Department took major action against the locations of Umashankar Singh, the only BSP MLA from Rasra Assembly seat of Ballia. Simultaneous raids were conducted at more than 30 places in Lucknow, Ballia, Sonbhadra, Kaushambi, Mirzapur and Prayagraj. Teams of more than 50 officers remained engaged in the investigation from 11 am till late night. By the time the news was written, cash worth more than Rs 3 crore had been counted.
Three teams of the Income Tax Department searched the residence of Umashankar Singh in Vipul Khand in Gomtinagar, Lucknow, the corporate office of his company Chhatrashakti Construction Company and the premises of close contractor Faizi on Wazir Hasan Road. Apart from this, the locations of many mining businessmen including CB Gupta, close to Umashankar Singh, who is doing mining business in the name of Sai Ram Enterprises Company in Sonbhadra, are being searched. The Income Tax Department had raided all the locations simultaneously at 11 am, after which important clues related to tax evasion and benami properties were found.
Name came up in mining scam
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Umashankar Singh does road and mining related work in the name of Chhatrashakti Construction Company and Sai Ram Enterprises. Last year, CAG had said in its report that there was a loss of revenue of about Rs 60 crore due to illegal mining operations in Sonbhadra. It is believed that only after this CAG report, the locations of Umashankar Singh and his close ones have been searched.
The officers had arrived disguised as wedding guests
It was not easy for the Income Tax Department to raid the residence of MLA Umashankar Singh in Ballia. In such a situation, the team arrived in the style of wedding procession instead of government vehicles. Wedding stickers of Mahendra Kumar and Sangeeta Kumari’s name were put on the vehicles, so that no one could have any doubt. Under the cover of this strategy, the officers reached the residence directly without any noise and started action.
Many bureaucrats are on target, clues are being collected
In the Income Tax raid, important documents related to illegal mining that took place in Sonbhadra and Mirzapur during the last few years have been seized, in which the names of many officers and the amount paid to them are mentioned. The Income Tax Department (IT) suspects that the black money of many bureaucrats has been invested in the mining business, clues for which are being collected.
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