The Income Tax (I-T) raid at the premises of Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren's private secretary M L Pal residence and others continued for the second day today with the department claiming that it has unearthed more documents which would strengthen the disproportionate assets case against Madhu Koda.
"As we are digging deeper, we are getting many important documents which will strengthen our evidence into the illegal investments and hawala transactions involving former chief minister Madhu Koda," a top IT official told PTI.
"The raids are a sequence to the October 31 searches involving Koda and his associates. The current raids have covered some more people," he said.
"Raids at some places have concluded while some will be concluded tonight. But the rest, including Pal's, will take one or two more days. Searches at Pal's houses at Ranchi and Jamshedpur is also connected with Koda case," the official said.
The I-T department had launched the raids yesterday in at least 13 cities covering 60 to 70 places.
Koda is in judicial custody since November 30 after his arrest by the state vigilance bureau.
On October 9 last year, the ED had lodged a case against Koda and several others under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.