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Union Home Secretary may initiate action against three IPS officers
By IndianMandarins- 17 Dec 2020
2281NEW DELHI (17.12.2020): The Election Commission of India (ECI) has asked the Madhya Pradesh Chief Election Officer (CEO) to lodge a criminal case against three IPS officers and others who were allegedly involved in a black money trail traced during the series of raids by the IT Department during the 2019 General Election. came to the fore The I-T department raided close aides of former MP Chief Minister Kamal Nath. Union Home Secretary has also been asked by the poll panel to initiate "appropriate departmental action" against the IPS officers. Further, ECI has also asked the MP Chief Secretary to undertake a "similar action" against a state police service officer. Reportedly, the EC sources identified the three Indian Police Service (IPS) officers as Sushovan Banerjee, Sanjay Mane, V Madhu Kumar and the state police service officer as Arun Mishra. An EC statement said the CBDT report informed the commission about certain entities and individuals who were engaged in "unauthorized and unaccounted cash contributions to individuals on behalf of a certain political party, which was reported to be corroborated during searches against persons by the tax department." The Election Commission said it was recommending action after Income Tax Department "deliberated" upon a report sent to it by the CBDT (Central Board of Direct Taxes) intimating it about the I-T Department's "search operations in MP and its findings of extensive use of unaccounted cash during the General Elections 2019." It may be recalled that the I-T Dept had conducted raids at 52 locations in MP and Delhi in April 2019 and those searched included Nath's former OSD Pravin Kakkar, adviser Rajendra Miglani, Ashwani Sharma, executives linked to his brother-in-law's firm Moser Baer, a company of his nephew Ratul Puri and others. The CBDT, on 8 April 8 2019, had said in a statement that tax sleuths recovered Rs 14.6 crore "unaccounted" cash and seized diaries and computer files of suspect payments after the raids. I-T Dept had said that it detected a trail of Rs 20 crore suspect cash allegedly being moved to the "headquarter of a major political party in Delhi". ALSO READ: IT Department investigates Chandigarh pharma company’s premises in 3 cities
Union Home Secretary may initiate action against three IPS officers
By IndianMandarins - 2020-12-17 13:47:00
NEW DELHI (17.12.2020): The Election Commission of India (ECI) has asked the Madhya Pradesh Chief Election Officer (CEO) to lodge a criminal case against three IPS officers and others who were allegedly involved in a black money trail traced during the series of raids by the IT Department during the 2019 General Election. came to the fore The I-T department raided close aides of former MP Chief Minister Kamal Nath.
Union Home Secretary has also been asked by the poll panel to initiate "appropriate departmental action" against the IPS officers. Further, ECI has also asked the MP Chief Secretary to undertake a "similar action" against a state police service officer. Reportedly, the EC sources identified the three Indian Police Service (IPS) officers as Sushovan Banerjee, Sanjay Mane, V Madhu Kumar and the state police service officer as Arun Mishra.
An EC statement said the CBDT report informed the commission about certain entities and individuals who were engaged in "unauthorized and unaccounted cash contributions to individuals on behalf of a certain political party, which was reported to be corroborated during searches against persons by the tax department."
The Election Commission said it was recommending action after Income Tax Department "deliberated" upon a report sent to it by the CBDT (Central Board of Direct Taxes) intimating it about the I-T Department's "search operations in MP and its findings of extensive use of unaccounted cash during the General Elections 2019."
It may be recalled that the I-T Dept had conducted raids at 52 locations in MP and Delhi in April 2019 and those searched included Nath's former OSD Pravin Kakkar, adviser Rajendra Miglani, Ashwani Sharma, executives linked to his brother-in-law's firm Moser Baer, a company of his nephew Ratul Puri and others.
The CBDT, on 8 April 8 2019, had said in a statement that tax sleuths recovered Rs 14.6 crore "unaccounted" cash and seized diaries and computer files of suspect payments after the raids. I-T Dept had said that it detected a trail of Rs 20 crore suspect cash allegedly being moved to the "headquarter of a major political party in Delhi".
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