Raided by IT dept, hospital, dairy firm pay up Rs32 crore

The Narmada hospital and Manohar Dairy have surrendered Rs32 crore as Income Tax to the IT department, after raids were conducted at several premises of these two establishments in the past three days.The Investigation Wing of the Income Tax had raided 23 premises of these two establishments in Bhopal and Hoshangabad on July 1.

The IT sleuths also raided the residence of broker Vinod Balwani on Friday after his name figured in the documents recovered from the residence of Narmada Hospital chairman Dr Rajesh Sharma, these proceedings continued till Saturday. A diary has been seized from the residence of Balwani in that names of many big wigs are written, though there is no mention of any transactions with them.

The raids and other proceedings were conducted under the supervision of Joint Director KG Goyal and under the direction of Deputy Director Hargovind Singh. Over hundred officials of the IT department took part in these raids conducted simultaneously in Bhopal, Indore and Hoshangabad.According to the departmental sources chairman of the Narmada Hospital has surrendered Rs18 crore while Manohar Dairy and BJP leader Shailendra Sharma have surrendered `14 crore making the total surrendered amount to Rs32 crore.

Notably, the Investigation Wing of the Income Tax has raided 23 places including Hospital Narmada Trauma Centre and its associate institutions, sweet meat trader Manohar Dairy, BJP leader Shailendra Sharma and others. Of the total 23 places raided 15 were those of Narmada Hospital and its associates, Manohar Dairy’s 6 premises in Bhopal and 1 in Indore. large scales of documents have been found during the raids that reveal that tax was evaded. The departmental sources informed that the department was getting information since last couple of years that the Hospital group is continuously expanding but is not submitting taxes. So the investigations were done on the basis of IT returns filed by the group. Some shocking documents have also been seized from the hospital, sources added.The IT sleuths also reached the college of BJP leader Shailendra Sharma, action was taken against him as partner of the hospital group.