Bhopal, April 9 (IANS) Income Tax Department officials here on Tuesday continued to search for a third day the premises of close aides of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath.
The officials had on Monday recovered Rs 14.6 crore in cash, informed sources said.
The department has seized cash and documents from Ashwini Sharma, Manager of a NGO. He has his office and residence in the Platinum Plaza building in which the Chief Minister’s Officer on Special Duty (OSD) Praveen Kakkar resides.
A huge amount of cash, gold and silver jewellery were recovered from Kakkar’s Indore house and Sharma’s Bhopal house, the sources said.
The searches were started at the residences and offices of Kakkar, Sharma and a Prateek Joshi on Sunday.
IT officials interrogated Kakkar till late on Monday.
–IANS
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