While the EC did not name the party, it has been extensively reported that the CBDT report referred to the Congress. “The report specifically mentions instances of prima facie involvement/nexus of public or government servants in unauthorised or unaccounted cash transactions,” the statement mentioned.
It mentioned the EC has directed to forward the copy of the October 28 CBDT report “to the Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh, to lodge criminal action before designated authority, which is the Madhya Pradesh economic offences wing, against concerned for the violation as per extant electoral and other relevant laws”.
Election Commission sources identified the 3 IPS officers as Sushovan Banerjee, Sanjay Mane, V Madhu Kumar and state police service officer as Arun Mishra. The tax division had performed raids at 52 areas in Madhya Pradesh and Delhi in April final year and these searched integrated Nath’s former officer on particular duty (OSD) Pravin Kakkar, adviser Rajendra Miglani, Ashwani Sharma, executives linked to his brother-in-law’s firm Moser Baer, a business of his nephew Ratul Puri and other individuals.
The CBDT, on April 8 final year, had mentioned in a statement that tax sleuths recovered Rs 14.6 crore “unaccounted” money and seized diaries and laptop or computer files of suspect payments immediately after the raids. It mentioned the division detected a trail of Rs 20 crore suspect money allegedly getting moved to the “headquarter of a major political party in Delhi”.
“Searches in Madhya Pradesh have detected widespread and well-organised racket of collection of unaccounted cash of about Rs 281 crore through various persons in different walks of life, including business, politics and public service.
“A portion of the money was also transferred to the headquarter of a big political party in Delhi, which includes about Rs 20 crore, which was moved by way of hawala not too long ago to the headquarter of the political party from the residence of a senior functionary at Tughlak Road, New Delhi,” the CBDT had mentioned. While the CBDT had neither identified the political party nor the senior functionary, Nath had earlier mentioned the action against his aides was politically motivated.