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Massive Income Tax raids underway in Andamans: Official

A team of over 120 income tax officials from Kolkata landed at Veer Savarkar International Airport on December 4, and they also alerted the airport officials to prevent the suspects from boarding flights to leave Port Blair.

The searches started on December 4 over suspected irregularities in filing returns by some businessmen. (File Photo)

2 min readPort BlairDec 7, 2024 01:27 PM IST First published on: Dec 7, 2024 at 01:27 PM IST

Over 120 officials of the Income Tax Department are conducting raids at multiple locations in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a senior official said on Saturday. The searches started on December 4 over suspected irregularities in filing returns by some businessmen in the archipelago, and are underway, the I-T official said.

“An I-T team from Kolkata is conducting raids in several offices in Church Road, Phoenix Bay, Marine Hills, Aberdeen Bazaar and Dilanipur areas of Port Blair. Search operations are also underway in Babu Lane and Junglighat areas,” the official said.

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Similar raids are underway in offices on MG Road and Gurdwara Lane, he said.