Sales Tax officials and Vigilance sleuth on Sunday jointly conducted a raid on Kalunga-based Bajrang Steel Traders and seized a bunch of documents and records.Source said the unit has been trading in scraps for last many years, but instead of giving proportionate sales tax it has been evading it.
After getting allegations, Vigilance and Sales Tax teams from Sambalpur conducted the raid with the help of local Commercial Tax officials and Vigilance sleuths in the godown at Kalunga and office at Civil Township.
It is learnt that the sleuths seized a diary from the possession of unit owner Pramod Jaiswal which establishes his link with the many political leaders, police officers and bureaucrats. The raid was conducted from forenoon to late afternoon.
It may be noted that years back a police raid had been conducted at two other godowns of Jaiswal at Kuarmunda and a huge quantity of illegal scraps was seized. Since then, keeping those two godowns locked Jaiswal has been running his business at Kalunga and Beldihi. It is learnt that Jaiswal has a big scrap unit at Keonjhar.
CTO PK Dasmohapatra, DCCT AK Panigrahi, Rourkela Vigilance DSP Purusottam Sethi and SI PK Aind conducted the raid.