I-T dept raids film personalities' houses & offices in Tamil Nadu

Over 100 officials from the dept raided 22 places across Chennai

Over 50 officials from the Income Tax Department, Chennai today conducted raids at houses and offices of several film personalities, including the comedian N Santhanam and several leading producers of the Tamil film industry.

 

Sources in the Department said over 100 officials from the department raided 22 places across Chennai, different parts of Tamil Nadu and one place in Hyderabad. The raids started at 8am on Thursday

 

These raids were conducted at actor Santhanam's house at Teynampet, Chennai, residence of film producer A M Rathnam, producer R B Choudary's office and house in T Nagar and producer Gnanavel Raja Vadapalani residence. I-T officials also conducted a raid at one of Rathnam's guest houses in Hyderabad.

 

It may be noted, these raids comes at a time when these film personalities films are scheduled to release on the Diwali day.

 

Source sin the Department said some of them failed to pay taxes to the I-T department and it was also alleged that some of these production houses had used unaccounted money to produce the films.

 

The outcome of the raid was not immediately known and it will be ascertained, said the official and further course of action will be decided based on the documents seized, he said.