The Income Tax raids at the residence and business premises of DMK treasurer, Durai Murugan, have snowballed into a political controversy on Monday as the Income Tax department disclosed that huge amount of unaccounted money was seized from a local party activist who is linked to Durai Murugan.
The cash, packed in small bundles, marked with numbers of wards and divisions, was kept concealed at a cement godown located in the residential premises of DMK's Katpadi town panchayat secretary Seenivasan, at Karigiri Salai, in Pallikuppam in Vellore district.
According to a statement from the I-T department, “The cash shifted from Kingston College (Durai Murugan Educational Trust), Vellore, to a cement godown in the night between 29th and 30th March due to botched up operation by the State Police and revenue authorities was found by I-T team.”
Friday night saw the DMK local workers holding a demonstration blocking the team from IT Department entering the residence of Durai Murugan. It was only after the arrival of Murugan at the scene the officials were allowed to check the residence.
Durai Murugan’s son Kathir Anand is the DMK candidate from the Lok Sabha constituency of Vellore. Friday night and Saturday morning saw sleuths of the IT department and officials of the flying squad deployed by the election Commission swooping down on Durai Murugan’s residence and on the engineering college owned by him.
RS Bharati, the legal wing head of the DMK met the Chief Electoral Officer of Tamil Nadu and lodged a complaint with him alleging that the raids at Durai Murugan’s residence and business premises were part of political vendetta.