Sleuths of the Directorate of Investigation of the Income-Tax department on Monday grilled Jagannath Pahadia and A R Antulay, former Chief Ministers of Rajasthan and Maharashtra, respectively, in connection with the hawala case.
According to sources, Antulay was interrogated at the directorates Jhandewalan office for well over an hour in the forenoon, while Pahadia was questioned in the evening for a similar period.
The names of the two are among the 59 deciphered from the diaries of the Jain brothers and a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act could not be made out against them since they were not public servants at the time when the money is alleged to have been received.
Mondays questioning was related to the property allegedly acquired during the period when the two are said to have received the payments from the Jain brothers and also regarding the bank transactions during this period.
The income-tax department has already served claim notices on over 35 persons after calculating their income while nearly a dozen persons, who could not be chargesheeted as they were not public servants, are being proceeded against in accordance with the provisions of the Income-Tax Act.
The case against most of the politicians and bureaucrats relate to concealment of income and amassing of property from the undisclosed income.
