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'Dark Sense of Humour': After Rs 350 Crore Cash Haul, Dhiraj Sahu's Old Tweet Criticising Demonetisation Goes Viral
Amit Malviya, the national convener of the IT cell of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), shared a screenshot of Sahu's 2022 tweet where he said that he was "distressed" to see rampant corruption despite demonitisation.
Dhiraj Sahu's Old Tweet Criticising Demonetisation Goes Viral
New Delhi: Congress MP Dhiraj Sahu seems to have landed in hot soup after the Income Tax Department raids at his premises where officials recovered around Rs 300 crore in cash from his premises. While the counting is still on, an old tweet of Sahu has been shared by the BJP where he criticised rampant corruption despite demonitisation.
Amit Malviya, the national convener of the IT cell of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), shared a screenshot of Sahu's 2022 tweet where he said that he was "distressed" to see rampant corruption despite demonitisation.
"I do not understand how do people accumulate so much black money. Only Congress party can remove corruption from its roots," Sahu's tweet read. Taking a jibe at Sahu, Malviya wrote, "Dhiraj Prasad Sahu has a dark sense of humour."
The tweet comes at a time when the Income Tax Department carried out co-ordinated raids across three states. The officials recovered cash valued at over Rs 300 crore from properties linked to Sahu.
The raids targeted liquor distillery group Boudh Distilleries Private Limited (BDPL), based in Odisha. The process of counting the seized cash is still underway.
Rs 300 Crore And Counting
The marathon raids against Boudh Distillery Private Limited, its promoters and others entered the sisth day on Monday. The sources told PTI that â¹ 351 crore cash has been counted and the process has ended.
The counting involved nine teams of about 80 people from the tax department and various banks, working in shifts in a 24x7 cycle. Another team of 200 officials, including security personnel, drivers and other staff, joined in after the taxman found 10 almirahs stuffed with cash apart from some other locations.
As many as 200 bags and trunks were used to transport the cash for depositing it in various bank branches in Odisha, the sources said.
The department believes that the entire cache of currency is "unaccounted" money earned from cash sales of country liquor by the business group, distributors and others.
(With inputs from PTI)
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