Cash Seizure By Income Tax Sleuths Crosses Rs 7.33 Crore In NE

GUWAHATI: Continuing its intense drive to attack unexplained cash during on-going election process, the Investigation Directorate of Income Tax, North East Region has so far made seizures of Rs 7.33 crore from the date of announcement of polls by Election Commission. This massive haul during the brief period of last one month far exceeds cash seizures of Rs. 1.21 crore made by the Directorate during 2014 general elections and is already 605% of the total amount seized in the previous elections. It is significant that nearly 75% of seizures have taken place just in the past two weeks and include operations based on independent intelligence against moneylenders and interceptions at airports by the Directorate’s Air Intelligence Units across the 7 sister states of North East.

As per a press release, Principal Director of NER, Sanjay Bahadur held a meeting with all officers of the Investigation Directorate to deliberate strategies for further tightening election expenditure monitoring process in the upcoming 2nd and 3rd phases of polling in the region. Following that, Subhrajyoti Bhattacharjee, Additional Director and Nodal Officer has repositioned officials from constituencies where polling has finished in the first phase and deployed them in the remaining poll bound constituencies.

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