The Supreme Court slammed the Income Tax department on Tuesday after learning that it never followed up on Rs 303 crore unaccounted cash seized in the run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. What is your mighty Income tax department doing when you have to depend on this information from EC?" This had prompted the state government to challenge the acquittal in SC, which then decided to dig deep into the matter. The SC wished to also know the action taken by the agency over the raids conducted in the present 2019 election as well. The EC affidavit said that after cash is seized during elections, it is forwarded to the respective treasury units.

Source: dna May 07, 2019 23:48 UTC