Income Tax Raid: Biggest Income Tax raid, the country was shaken, notes were taken away in trucks

Breaking News (Income Tax Raid) The Income Tax Department always keeps a close watch on those who hide the country's revenue, i.e. those who evade taxes in the country. 

The Income Tax Department raids them in such a way that the tax evaders break into a sweat. One such action of the Income Tax Department has come to light, in which a huge amount of cash has been found. 

Income Tax Department raids create records

There have been many Income Tax raids in the country whose stories will remain in people's minds for years. There has been a raid in the country when 90 officers of the Income Tax Department raided a person. 

Among these, people are also remembering the Kanpur raid in which cash worth more than 250 crores was recovered and the money was taken in a truck. Let us know about the 5 biggest raids of the Income Tax Department. 

People still remember the 1981 raid

On July 16, 1981, more than 90 income tax officers raided the Kanpur premises of Sardar Inder Singh, a well-known businessman, former Punjab Assembly member and Rajya Sabha MP. 

They were accompanied by a force of 200 policemen. A huge amount of hidden property and cash was unearthed in the raid that lasted for three nights and two days. 

The Income Tax Department also raided the hideouts of Sardar Inder Singh's close associates in Tilak Nagar, Lajpat Nagar and Arya Nagar in Kanpur and the factories of Singh Engineering Works Private Limited located in Panki and Fazalganj. All these were sealed. At that time, Rs 92 lakh in cash was recovered.

Gold, jewellery and fixed deposits were also recovered. The robbery was not limited to Kanpur, its news reached Delhi and here 72 thousand rupees in cash and 1.1 lakh rupees in fixed deposits were recovered. 1.3 crore rupees were recovered and gold bars worth 30 lakh rupees were recovered in two days. It was counted in 18 hours. 

Rs 351 crore recovered

Now a raid was conducted by the Income Tax Department in the year 2023. The raid was conducted at the locations of Dheeraj Sahu in Jharkhand and Odisha. 

This raid, which started on 6 December 2023, yielded cash worth more than Rs 351 crore and three kg of gold jewellery. This has been the biggest recovery so far.  

Money carried by trucks

At the same time, a raid was conducted at the Kidwai Nagar residence of Kanpur perfume businessman Piyush Jain. This happened in December 2021. Although low profile Piyush Jain's business was in Kannauj, he lived in Kanpur.

The action shocked people here. More than Rs 250 crore cash was recovered from Jain's residence. So much money was recovered from a person who used to travel on an old scooter. 

A large number of machines and money were transported in trucks to count the cash. The raid continued for more than 120 hours.

135 crores recovered here

A similar raid was conducted on the offices of Sahara Group in Delhi and Noida. In this, cash worth Rs 135 crore and jewellery worth Rs 1 crore were recovered. 

This raid was in a case of tax evasion. With this raid, the legal battle of Sahara Group started and the head of the group Subrata Roy was arrested. 

This raid also shocked people

A similar raid was carried out by the Income Tax Department in Bengaluru in 2016 during a high profile operation. In this, raids were conducted at the premises of two engineers and two contractors. 5.7 crore rupees were recovered. 

Of this, 4.8 crore were new notes while the remaining 90 lakh were old notes. 7 kg gold and 9 kg jewellery were also recovered in the raid. This was worth five crores. Big vehicles were also recovered from here.