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Congress questions income tax clean chit to Sahara group

Entire case was decided in just 16 days including 4 holidays, says Randeep Surjewala

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Amit Agnihotri New Delhi
A day after Rahul Gandhi dared PM Modi to probe the Sahara-Birla papers, which show the premier had received money from the two corporates, the Congress questioned the clean chit given to the Sahara group by the income tax settlement commission recently.
 
"The whole case was decided in just 16 days which included four holidays. The PM should explain," Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said.
 
According to him, Sahara had revised its income tax return after a raid on its offices on November 22, 2014 where they acknowledged that they had concealed income worth Rs 2017 crore. When the matter went

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