Tax men raid DMK MP Jagathrakshakan

Income Tax officials have conducted raids on 40 premises of DMK member of parliament K T Jagathrakshakan on the charge of tax evasion by educational institutions run by him. Jagathrakshakan at the time of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections declared £20 million as his total assets in his and his wife’s names. The raids will also show if he has amassed wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income. Such evidence, if any, will be shared with other investigating agencies like the CBI. Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin denounced the raids against Jagathrakshkan as “vendetta politics” against the opposition being pursued by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union government.