Acting on a tip-off on tax evasion, teams of Income Tax Department conducted raids on Thursday on a private educational institute — Baluni Classes, a premier institute in Dehradun that is engaged in teaching engineering and medical aspirants. IT officials also raided the premises of the same institute at Roorkee.
The information of the IT officials conducting raids on one private educational institute of the city left the owners of other such Dehradun-based educational institutes panicky.
It is learnt that the administration deployed policemen after the I-T officials sought them for security. They sealed the institute, allowing no one to get in as long as the raids were on. However, they remained tight-lipped regarding the details of the raids.
The teams questioned the institute’s officials, it is learnt. It is also learnt that the raids were part of the initiatives taken by the IT department on the basis of the complainants received to stop Income Tax evasion by the private institutes.
The IT officials reached the Nehru Colony –based institute at 8.30 am on Thursday. Students were in the classes when IT officials arrived. They sealed the office and sought account-related documents from the officials concerned. Officials reviewed the documents for many hours
while sitting in the institute. It is learnt that IT officials seized finance-related documents from the institute.