The income tax raids are underway at multiple production houses in Mumbai, including the office of producer Vinod Bhanushali and the house of Jayantilal Gada, the Income Tax department said.
Searches are going on in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Tamilanadu, Uttarakhand, and Himachal Pradesh.
As an I-T 'survey' in the BBC offices, located in Delhi and Mumbai, is going on, Congress on Tuesday reacted sharply and accused the government of showing a 'dictatorial' attitude.
Himachal Pradesh Cabinet Minister Jagat Singh Negi on Thursday said that the raids conducted at one of Adani Wilmar's depot warehouses at Parwanoo were part of routine tax raids and it has nothing to do with cement plants closure.
Income tax on Tuesday, conducted raids on the premises of Janta Dal United Member of Legislative Council Radhacharan Sah and his close aide in Bihar's Patna and Arrah.
The sources added that searches are underway in Bareilly and Kanpur on premises linked to the company, saying that Shakeel Qureshi, the Promoter of the company is also covered in the searches.
Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Rachana Reddy on Monday mocked Telangana Rashtra Samithi (now Bharat Rashtra Samithi) leader and State Labour Minister Malla Reddy for his remark that there will be no Income Tax raids if their party comes to power at the Centre.
Telangana Rashtriya Samithi (now Bharat Rashtriya Samithi) leader and State Labour Minister Malla Reddy on Sunday reacting to the income tax raids on him recently by officials said that I am not afraid as CM KCR is with me.
After conducting raids in around 50 premises spread across Bengaluru, Mumbai and Goa, the Income Tax Department has detected unaccounted income of more than Rs 1300 crore of people involved in the execution of joint development agreements with some Karnataka-based real-estate developers.