NEW DELHI: The Income-Tax Department has seized Rs 8 crore in cash and jewellery worth Rs 2 crore during raids on the premises of an agri-processing company, allegedly owned by an MLA, in Haryana’s Jind district.
Officials said the department has issued a summons to Independent MLA from Jind Jasbir Deswal, asking him to appear before it after raids were conducted on the premises of a group of companies linked to him in the last week of April for alleged tax evasion.
The searches were conducted following allegations that the group was making “unaccounted cash sales and purchases, booking of bogus expenses and showing unaccounted income in the books by using shell companies”.
Efforts to reach the MLA on mobile phone did not fructify. (AGENCIES)