I-T raids held on premises of 4 Uttar Pradesh bureaucrats

New Delhi, May 24

The Income Tax department on Wednesday carried out searches on the premises of four Uttar Pradesh-based bureaucrats, including two IAS officers, in connection with its probe against them on charges of tax evasion.

Several I-T teams have covered at least 15 premises of the officers in Lucknow, Noida, Greater Noida, Meerut, Baghpat, Mainpuri and Delhi since early morning, I-T officials say.

The officers against whom the action is being taken are IAS officer and Director (Health) Hriday Shankar Tewari, IAS officer and Additional CEO of Greater Noida Authority VK Sharma, his wife and Regional Transport Officer (RTO) Mamta Sharma, and special secretary (prisons) SK Singh.

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The I-T officials said the department had been investigating charges of tax evasion against them.

The department had carried out similar raids against some other UP bureaucrats last month. PTI