Sundargarh: The Income-Tax raids at the residences, offices, and business establishments of businessman-turned-industrialist Ghanshyam Dalmia alias Bunty Dalmia and his brothers at 10 locations in Odisha and Chhattisgarh continued for the second day on Friday. Dalmia has been accused of evading filing income tax returns.
It is worth mentioning here that Ghanshyam Dalmia’s business establishments are spread across Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Mumbai. His business interests include coal mining, the steel industry, sponge iron factories, hotels, and many more.
The 10 locations that are being searched include the houses, business establishments, and offices of Dalmia, his brothers Bablu and Jogesh, in Rourkela, Sundargarh town and Barpali in Odisha and Raigarh, Raipur in Chhattisgarh, and Bilaspur in Madhya Pradesh.
Ghanshyam Dalmia has business establishments in Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Mumbai, and Madhya Pradesh. The businessman has hotels and industries along with the coal trading, the source added.
Notably, during a raid on Dalmia’s office in the Gopalpur locality of Sundargarh, some of his staff jumped a wire fence and fled from the spot. A manhunt has been launched to nab those staff soon.
Ten teams of the I-T Department are conducting the raids at Dalmia’s two-storeyed residential building in Gopalpur in Sundargarh, office premises, showroom, sponge iron factory, MCL coal shipping site at Burpali in Odisha, Raigarh Iron, Steel & Power plant factory in Chhattisgarh, residence and office in Raipur, and a hotel in Bilaspur.
More than 100 I-T officers and CRPF forces have been involved in the raids and all the places have been sealed. The employees and owners of the business establishments have been detained by the I-T officials and their mobile phones seized.
When the raids began on Thursday morning at Gopalpur in Odisha’s Sundargarh district, some employees of Ghanshyam Dalmia reportedly jumped the fence and tried to escape. The I-T Department and police have launched a search operation to nab these absconding employees of Ghanshyam Dalmia.
