The Income Tax has seized Rs 80 lakh cash and keys of six lockers from raids at the location of Nilesh Gadhiya promoted mining firm NG Gadhiya Infrastructure Limited. The company has contract of gravel mining near Bisalpur dam.
The central agency has also seized important documents related to construction of Bisalpur project, MLA flats near Vidha Sabha and Constitution Club.
The accounts department of the company had deleted the data of company. The I-T department read to retrieve the data by cloning.
The I-T raid will continue on this group.
What is the complaint?
As per the complaint, the company is charging Rs 750 per tonne from consumers against a payment of Rs 100 per tonne to government. The name of the group came lime light when it supplied gravel to the prestigious project of Constitutional Club.
“There was no relaxation in rates even after Supreme Court lifted ban on gravel mining. The companies continued to make hay in connivance with mining department officials,” said an I-T department official.
The I-T department may investigate the matter with officials of mining departments.
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