Income Tax department raids Dainik Bhaskar offices

The Income Tax department is conducting searches across Dainik Bhaskar offices across the country according to news reports. The reports suggest that the raids are also being held across the owners' houses in Bhopal. 

 

According to a PTI tweet, the Income Tax department has raided multiple premises of media group Dainik Bhaskar in Bhopal, Jaipur and other locations.

 

Other news reports add that the phones of all the employees present in Bhaskar's offices have been confiscated and no one is being allowed to leave the premises.

 

Campaign India has written to Dainik Bhaskar Group for a statement and the story will be updated when we receive one.