As per reports, the Income Tax Department is conducting searches at the media group Dainik Bhaskar’s offices in Bhopal, Jaipur, Ahmedabad along with several other locations.
ANI stated quoting a source that the searches are under process at several locations involving promoters, residences, and offices in connection to a tax evasion case.
Digvijaya Singh, Congress leader and former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh said on Twitter as cited by Moneycontrol that tax officials “are present” at a half dozen premises of the group, including at its office at Press complex in state capital Bhopal.
Income Tax Department is conducting searches on Dainik Bhaskar Group. Searches are going on in connection with tax evasion case, at multiple locations including Promoters' residences & offices: Sources
— ANI (@ANI) July 22, 2021
Madhya Pradesh: Visuals from outside the office of Dainik Bhaskar Group in Bhopal
Income Tax Department is conducting searches on Dainik Bhaskar Group in connection with tax evasion case, at multiple locations, as per Sources pic.twitter.com/boH3xLGUUE
— ANI (@ANI) July 22, 2021
As per latest reports, On Thursday Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned for almost an hour after the opposition members attempted to raise issues of the income tax raids on the newspaper group Dainik Bhaskar.
The leading newspaper group have published several stories on COVID 19 deaths in the second wave of the pandemic. It also reported about the bodies dumped in Ganga river which was found to be floating in the river while some washed up on the banks of the rivers in Uttar Pradesh.
(This is a developing story. Check back for further updates)
