Bhopal: The government is not in a hurry to act on the report about the revenue-tax raids on the official and residential premises of the colleagues of former chief minister Kamal Nath.
The government plans to take action on the report only soon after weighing up its pros and cons. The Chief Minister’s Secretariat will sift by way of the report received from the chief secretary, and an action will be taken only soon after that.
The Election Commission has advised the government to register an FIR against the guilty on the basis of the report. The government desires to see what sort of criminal case can be initiated on the appraisal report of the revenue-tax division.
The revenue-tax division has not taken the statement of everyone whose names figured in the report. The division has taken the statements of only these on whose residential and official premises had been raided.
The names of IPS officers, legislators and businessmen have been described in the report, but I-T officials did not take the statement of everyone of them. The state government may well ask the probe agency to take the statement of all these individuals, and soon after that, it may well initiate action.
The report of the revenue-tax division is primarily based on the documents identified at the residence of a chartered accountant. The documents have been compared with the Whatsapp chatting of these on whose premises I-T raids had been carried out. Nevertheless, the revenue-tax division has not quizzed these whose names cropped up in the report.
The revenue-tax division frequently requires statement of these whose names are identified in the documents seized for the duration of raids.
In the present case, the division has neither issued notice nor taken the statement of the individuals concerned.