Dhiraj Sahu’s cash haul raises a lot of questions
The Income Tax raid found Rs.351 crore cash from local liquor baron and Congress MP Dhiraj Sahu’s premises. This Income Tax’s largest seizure of hard cash in a single operation. Whose money is this? Sahu parking Congress party’s money or Naxal money? Someone using Sahu’s offices to keep hard cash when elections in Chhattisgarh ended, resulting in the exit of the ruling dispensation Congress?
Dhiraj Sahu is a well-known liquor baron, engaged in the trade of country-made liquor, operating in tribal areas of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, and Odisha. It is a well-known fact that those who wanted to operate liquor businesses in these tribal areas need the support of Maoist forces, as well as from the administration.
See the cash notes. It is all mostly in Rs.500 format. That shows that this money was not a regular collection from sales points, which would have been in Rs.10, Rs.20, Rs.50, and Rs.100. So this point trashes the counter-argument that this Sahu’s firms’ collection from liquor kept for a week or so to deposit in Banks.
Congress MP Sahu’s liquor business mainly operates from three non-BJP rules states – namely Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, and Odisha. On December 3, the Congress party unexpectedly lost Chhattisgarh, and an Income Tax raid for continuous five days started on December 6. Someone or some people from Congress shifted money to Dhiraj Sahu’s place after the unexpected loss in the election?
One thing is sure. This is not Dhiraj Sahu’s money. As per his election affidavit to the Rajya Sabha, his total assets is worth Rs.34 crore and his annual income is Rs. One crore only. Anyway, no one believes this affidavit is true. But getting unaccounted cash of Rs.351 crore does not tally here. These things clearly show that Dhiraj Sahu’s business establishment is used for parking money for someone.
If it is money parked for Maoist operators in the region, the matter becomes serious. Is it money parked for the Congress party? Will the Intelligence Bureau and Enforcement Directorate probe these angles or will it be a regular Income tax case affair, which needs a minimum of two years to settle after hearing Dhiraj Sahu’s side of accounts settling and paying tax and penalty?
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