'Will Have To Return Every Penny Looted From Public': PM Modi Blasts Congress After Rs 200 Crore Cash Found Tax Raid

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today slammed the Congress party after over Rs 200 crore in cash was recovered from Jharkhand Congress Rajya Sabha MP Dhiraj Sahu. Prime Minister Modi said that citizens should see the piles of currency notes and then listen to the speeches of opposition leaders.

"The countrymen should look at the pile of these notes and then listen to the honest 'speeches' of their leaders...Whatever has been looted from the public, every penny will have to be returned, this is Modi's guarantee," said PM Modi.

देशवासी इन नोटों के ढेर को देखें और फिर इनके नेताओं के ईमानदारी के 'भाषणों' को सुनें... 

जनता से जो लूटा है, उसकी पाई-पाई लौटानी पड़ेगी, यह मोदी की गारंटी है।

pic.twitter.com/O2pEA4QTOj — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 8, 2023

It may be noted that the Income Tax Department conducted raids at the Boudh Distilleries Private Limited in Odisha and Jharkhand on Thursday and recovered huge cash from the company's office. The IT department was forced to order more counting machines to count the huge amounts of cash recovered. Baldev Sahu Infra Pvt Ltd company which is a group company of Boudh Distilleries, which is covered in the search is linked to Congress Rajya Sabha MP from Jharkhand, Dheeraj Sahu.

The raids were conducted at Bolangir and Sambalpur in Odisha and Ranchi and Lohardaga in Jharkhand, according to Income Tax sources.  The raids were also conducted at Baldev Sahu and Group of Companies' Satpura office.

The tax department recovered currency notes of Rs 500, Rs 200 and Rs 100 stuffed in nine almiras. Yesterday, the tax department filled 157 bags with the notes after counting and when more bags could not be found, the cash was stuffed in sacks and were taken to banks.

According to reports, the amount may increase further as counting is yet to be completed. According to sources, the banks of the places where the raids are going on do not have arrangements to keep such an amount of money in one place; hence, arrangements are being made to keep the money by contacting big banks.