With less than a week to go for the second phase of Lok Sabha election in Tamil Nadu, the Income Tax Department in response to the intelligence Inputs of unaccounted cash for possible use in elections conducted searches across Tamil Nadu. The Intelligence agencies alleged the use of unaccounted cash and group of cash handlers and financiers who are mobilizing cash from unaccounted sources to use in elections in two separate cases.
After receiving the information about the unaccounted cash that is in possession of a contractor firm PSK engineering construction company, IT Department carried out searches in three premises of Chennai and four in the Namakkal.
IT Department is also conducting searches at the premises of Akash Baskaran and Sujai Reddy In Chennai and Tirunelveli. A total of eleven premises are being covered in the searches that include one in Tirunelveli and remaining ten in Chennai.
Seven places were raided amid the reports of cash holders that might use the money to influence voters during the elections.
Over 500 officials from the department conducted the raids all across the state.
Similar raids were conducted by the IT Department in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka where the chief minister alleged that the IT Department is working at the behest of the ruling party. In the development of the complaint, Election Commission asked the Revenue Department to submit the reports of its raids and rebuked IT to take its orders casually. The EC asked It to inform the chief electoral officer prior to conducting the raids as EC should be kept informed.
However, there has been no mention of the election until now. Tamil Nadu will have 39 MPs to contest the Lok Sabha Polls. The poll will be held in the second phase of the elections on April 18, 2019. The results for the Lok Sabha elections will be announced on May 23.
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