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Rs 23 lakh seized from Koda and aides: I-T dept
Published on Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 21:26, Updated on Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 03:12 in Politics section
Tags: Madhu Koda, High Court , Ranchi
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Ranchi: The Income Tax (I-T) department on Thursday told the Jharkhand High Court that it had made a recovery of over Rs 23 lakh and a few thousand US dollars in cash during searches at 69 places of former chief minister Madhu Koda and his associates.
"The I-T department has shown seizure of Rs 23.65 lakh and $3,430 during the search operation conducted at 69 places of Koda and other people," said Rajiv Kumar, lawyer of Durga Oraon who had filed a public interest litigation (PIL).
The Jharkhand High Court, however, expressed dissatisfaction with the submission by the IT department and said that it wanted specific details of what amount of money had been recovered and from where.
The court on November 5 sought the details of the I-T searches. It asked the I-T officials to submit a detailed investigation report. The next hearing is slated for November 26.
"The IT commissioner in an affidavit said that the raids and search operation were conducted by their investigation wing and the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The I-T commissioner has assured the court that a detailed investigation report would be submitted after getting the report from the investigation wing and the ED. The final report of the investigation would be submitted by January 20," Kumar said.
I-T and ED had conducted searches at 69 places of Koda and his associates in eight Indian cities. Koda is facing charges of laundering Rs 2,500 crore.
Arrest warrants have been issued against Koda's associates Vinod Sinha and Sanjay Chaudhary after they failed to appear before the I-T department investigators.
The Jharkhand CID on Thursday sounded an alert to arrest both of them.
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How long will this tussle between the IT/ED & Koda go round & round ?
We hv had several
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Rs 23 lakh only there must be some wrong calculation it must be minimum of Rs 2300 crores or even
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The governments attention is fully focussed on Koda, setting aside the proceedings of all other scams....
This
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This case is said to involve 6000 Crores. What an achievement, 23 Lakhs recovered from Koda AND aides. It is
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The investigating agencies should declare names of ministers found in the diary. If they are to use the diary and
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