I-T conducts surveys on businesses related to Mayawati’s brother
The income tax department launched multiple survey operations at nearly a dozen premises of businesses and firms linked to Anand Kumar, brother of BSP supremo Mayawati, on Friday.
Officials said the operations are being conducted in Delhi and the national capital region.
“The department is also conducting survey and verification action on certain builders and business entities which had close business relations with the companies of Kumar and his associates and are believed to have made substantial investments in form of subscribing share capital, share premium among others in these entities,” a senior officer said.
The genuineness of these transactions are being probed into, they added.
A survey operation under income tax laws pertains to raids where the taxman only visits the business premises of an entity and does not cover his or her residential premises.
The department, as part of these survey operations, is also ascertaining the veracity of financial transactions undertaken by these entities related to Kumar and others including inquiries in respect of their capital structure, unsecured loans, creditors among others.
The taxman is ascertaining the investments made in acquiring immovable assets and the source thereof these investments, they said.
In a separate operation, the department is conducting searches on a Delhi-based group which is a global leader in Mentha, the officials said. ered holy by many Hindus.
These groups became active after the BJP-led government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi took over at the Centre. They claim to protect cows from being taken to slaughterhouses. Critics, however, accuse these vigilante groups of targeting people, mostly from the Muslim and Dalit community.
Poonawalla said violence committed by these ‘gau raksha’ groups have reached such proportions that even Prime Minister Narendra Modi called them out as people who were “destroying the society”.
The plea alleged that these groups were committing atrocities against Dalits and minorities in the name of protection of cows and they needed to be “regulated and banned in the interest of social harmony, public morality and law and order in the country”.
It had also sought a direction to remove alleged “violent content” uploaded on social media and hosted by the cow protection groups.
The plea sought to declare as “unconstitutional” section 12 of the Gujarat Animal Prevention Act, 1954, Section 13 of Maharashtra Animal Prevention Act, 1976, and Section 15 of Karnataka Prevention of Cow Slaughter and Cattle Preservation Act, 1964, which provides for protection to persons acting in good faith under the Act or rules. found are possible if the intake is negligible for prolonged period,” said Dr Dharmendra of the hospital. “The cows were anaemic and devoid of nutritious food.”
A cow’s proscribed diet is eight kg of hay and 15 kg of green fodder. Baba Tiwari, a caretaker at the shelter, said inadequate fodder was being given to the cows for a long time despite no shortage. Other members say the cows were getting one kg of hay and two kg of green fodder every day.
The general secretary of society Shyamji Arora dismissed the allegations and said the cows were attended by doctors on a day-to-day basis and eight members of the shelter examined the fodder. “Every day 18 quintals of hay and 20 quintal of green fodder is given to the cows; now that summer has set in, green fodder will not be available for next one month,” he said.
One cow, he said, was dehydrated and old cows were on light food on the advice of the doctors. “It is alarming for all of us and the case will be investigated to find out how this happened and where the fodder is going”. judgement that liquor shops shall not ply within 500 metres of national highways (or 220 metres in the case of places with population below 20,000).
Moreover, moves to shift shops to other locations to comply with the order have sparked protests from people all over the country, especially in BJP-ruled states such as UP and Uttarakhand.