Tejashwi Yadav said the Income Tax raids were attempts to muzzle government s critics.
New Delhi:
Bihar politician Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday lashed out at the government for the Income Tax Department s raids on director Anurag Kashyap and actor Taapsee Pannu, among the biggest critics of Prime Minister Narendra Modi s administration in Bollywood. They first employed IT, CBI, ED to conduct raids on vocal & upright political rivals for their character assassination. Now Nazi govt is chasing social activists, journalists & artists to threaten them against calling spade a spade. Condemnable Act! Mr Yadav, leader of Bihar s opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal, tweeted.
They first employed IT, CBI, ED to conduct raids on vocal & upright political rivals for their character assassination.
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IT dept raids Taapsee Pannu, Anurag Kashyap, others in tax evasion probe; expected to continue till late night
The Income Tax department s raid continued overnight at properties linked to Bollywood actor Taapsee Pannu and filmmaker Anurag Kashyap in Mumbai and Pune. The I-T sleuths raided the homes and offices of Pannu, Kashyap as well as his partners who launched the now-shuttered production house Phantom Films, according to officials privy to the development said.
The searches, part of a tax evasion probe against Phantom Films and carried out across 30 locations in Mumbai and Pune, also covered Reliance Entertainment group CEO Shibhasish Sarkar and some executives of celebrity and talent management companies KWAN and Exceed, they said.