SURAT: After the three-days-long search operation by the
Income Tax department, Surat
BJP leader
PVS Sarma
on Saturday sent a message to his close contacts through WhatsApp, saying he was doing well and nothing to worry at all.
Sarma was facing the I-T searches at about 14 locations of his associates in Surat, Mumbai and Thane from the last three days after he tweeted to PM Narendra Modi alleging the multi-crore money laundering scam perpetrated on the behest of the senior I-T officers, builders, jewellers, diamond and textile industrialists during
demonetisation.
Sources said that the I-T searches on
Sarma
and his associates were over by 12pm on Saturday. The I-T department handed over the mobile phone of Sarma and that he posted messages to the media fraternity in Surat.
Talking with TOI over phone, Sarma said, “They have played their bit, now it is my turn to expose the scam.”
Meanwhile, Gujarat state BJP President,
CR Paatil
was summoned by the BJP high command to New Delhi on Friday regarding the I-T searches on PVS Sarma and his tweets to PM Modi regarding the alleged multi-crore money laundering scam during demonetisation. The high command is believed to have sought information on Kalamandir Jewellers Limited, a jewellery firm having retail stores in Surat, Bharuch, Kosamba and Vapi, regarding its alleged involvement in the scam.
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