A Rs 150 crore worth hotel in a prime business space of Gurgaon has been attached by the Income-tax department, considering it as a "benami" asset of Haryana Congress leader Kuldeep Bishnoi and his brother, officials said on Tuesday.
They said the department's Delhi-based anti-benami unit has issued an order for attachment of the hotel property under section 24(3) of the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act, 1988.
The hotel, as per the order accessed by PTI, is owned in the name of a company, Bright Star Hotel Private Ltd.
The latest action by the department has come in the backdrop of the raids conducted by it on 13 premises linked to Bishnoi in Haryana, Delhi and Himachal Pradesh on July 23 on charges of alleged tax evasion.
I-T sources said their probe found that 34 per cent shares in the company are held in the name of a "front" company registered in British Virgin Island (BVI) and was being operated from UAE.
The said hotel entity, they said, and properties held by it are "the benami assets of Kuldeep Bishnoi and Chander Mohan (Bishnoi's brother) ."
They said the control over the affairs of the entity rests with the Bishnoi and monetary consideration paid for acquisition of shares in Bright Star Hotel Private Limited was "arranged by the Bishnoi."