Sales tax officer and SDO in-charge raided a book stall and its godown on Thursday late night. They took the physical stock balances and obtained purchase bills and stock summary of the shop as on that date. The officers raided the Sharma Book Centre following the instructions of Deputy Commissioner Chhaviranjan. The officers duo — deputy sales commissioner Madhukar Sinha and executive magistrate Kamalendra Kumar Sinha seized CPU, bill books, stock registers and other papers for probe. Madhukar Sinha said, “There were irregularities in maintance of registers.” Penalty would be charged on the taxable materials”.
The raid took place after the meeting held by DC Chhaviranjan with private school managements and guardians at the Collectorate. The parents of students from private schools had been constantly complaining about restrictive practices of schools and book sellers. DC had also been getting complaints about development charges and re-admission charges which is collected by school managements every year. DC formed an adhoc committee to deal with re-admission fee.