Question : INCOME TAX RAIDS ON INDIAN CRICKETERS



(a) whether the Income Tax Department have recently conducted raids on the houses of prominent cricket players/BCCI Offices/Bookies etc.;

(b) if so, the details thereof, location-wise;

(c) the outcome of these raids;

(d) the value of property or objectionable documents recovered from each of the residence during these raids; and

(e) the action the Government propose to take after conducting these raids?

Answer given by the minister

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE (SHRI V. DHANANJAYA KUMAR)

(a) Searches have been conducted u/s 132 of the Income Tax Act on the houses of some cricket players and other connected persons.

(b) to (e): These searches have been conducted at Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Patiala, Chandigarh on the persons mentioned in the list enclosed. Assets worth about Rs. Four crore have been seized. Papers and documents seized are under examination. Necessary action in accordance with the provisions of law has been initiated.


LIST REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.3211 FOR 11.8.2000

CRICKET PLAYERS

1. Mohd. Azharuddin

2. Ajay Jadeja

3. Kapil Dev

4. Nikhil Chopra

5. Manoj Prabhakar
6. Ajay Sharma

7 Navjot Singh Sidhu

CRICKET ADMINISTRATORS

1. Jagmohan Dalmiya

2. Kishore Rungta
ASSOCIATES

1. Mark Mascarenhas

2. V. Chamundeswarnath

3. Dharampal Singh Malhotra & Surinder Kaur Malhotra

4. Hiren D. Hathi

5. Shobhan Mehta
6. Rattan Mehta and Mona Mehta

7 Deepak Kumar, Yudhishtar Kumar and Jyoti Kumar

8. Hans Kumar Jain and Rajesh Kumar Jain

9. Mukesh Gupta
10. Karun Dubey
11. Ms. Tapati Ahuja
12. Anand Saxena
13. Manmohan Khattar
14. Prashant Kumar Dash
15. Praveen Kumar Gupta and Atul Gupta
16. M/s Kamla Radio, Deepak Kumar

RELATIVES


1. P.M. Rungta

2. Ms. Sangeeta Bijlani

3. Moti Lal Bijlani

4. Deepak M. Rindani

5. Ms. Shan C.P. (Wife of Shri Daulatsinh Jadeja)
6. Ms. Sharda Bhatia

7 Ms. Shashawati Anand