In one of the biggest haul of income-tax raid in Bihar, the department officials seized over 4.5 crore and as many as documents of over 50 flats in Patna. The raid was conducted on the premises of the ruling Janata Dal (United) treasurer and businessman Vinay Kumar Sinha. The JD(U) leader was also party MLC earlier. “We’ve seized over 4.5 crore in a sack and documents of over 50 flats in Patna in the raid,” said Ajay Kumar, d i r e c t o r ( I n v e s t i g a t i o n ) , Income Tax, Patna. The JD(U) treasurer happens to be big businessman of the State having distributorship of several food companies. Sinha along with two others, Avinash Kumar and Rajesh Kumar, also owns a company Puja Food Product. The I-T officials themselves were surprised to see over 4.5 crore stacked in a jute bag. The officials also raided the residences of Vinay Kumar Sinha at Rajapur and North Srikrishnapuri where papers of huge investment were recovered. The I-T team from circle- 2 was led by officials Manish Kumar Jha and Saurabh Kumar.
In the first term of the NDA Government the JD(U) leader was a party MLC. Meanwhile, Opposition leaders have demanded probe against the JD-U leader. “We demand CBI probe into the recovery of cash and investment papers. Since the JD(U) treasurer has been closely associated with Nitish Kumar we are afraid that the seized money might belong to him,” c h a r g e d t h e L J P l e a d e r R a g h v e n d r a S i n g h Kushwaha. A n o t h e r d i s g r u n t l e d leader and Rajya Sabha member Upendra Kushwaha also got an opportunity to target Nitish Kumar. “Vinay Kumar Sinha has been party treasurer since Samata Party days in 1994 and he is still the treasurer…it’s a matter of probe from where and how he got so much of money,” asked Kushwaha who was also earlier close to Nitish Kumar.
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