PTI, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI: Union minister Pon Radhakrishnan today said there was no conspiracy in the raids conducted on premises linked to jailed AIADMK leader V K Sasikala and her relatives and held that the Income Tax department’s actions were based on information. The minister of state for finance rejected deposed AIADMK leader TTV Dhinakaran’s charge of conspiracy. Dhinakaran had alleged that the multi-city searches at 187 places conducted since November 9 were a “conspiracy” aimed at ousting him and his jailed aunt from politics.
“The income tax raids are based on information and documents collected by the department…There is no conspiracy in this,” Radhakrishnan told reporters here. “There was no ulterior motive in the searches and none should see them with parochial presumptions,” he said. The raids to detect tax evasion as part of the I-T Department’s “Operation Clean Money” were almost over, a senior I-T official said today.
Radhakrishnan also rejected the charge by some opposition leaders that the I-T department was being used to target them, saying raids had also been carried out against companies owned by BJP leaders in other states.
