Jeetendra, other TV stars raided

Almost the same time last year I-T authorities had raided leading film personalities like KC Bokadia, Madhuri Dixit’s Pune property and Shah Rukh Khan. Television’s highest paid actor Shekhar Suman’s penthouse at Lokhandwala too was raided today.

Suman reportedly charges Rs 75,000 to Rs one lakh for one day’s shooting. Others caught in the I-T net included The Adhikari brothers, makers of serials like Commander and Damini. The two brothers, Markand and Gautam Adhikari, had recently finalised a deal to buy a building in Andheri MIDC, industry sources inform.

The offices and residence of Heemesh Rashmiya, another producer for Zee, who owns the production outfit, H R Enterprises, were also raided. The officers have found several incriminating documents in the raids that were on till late Monday evening. Large scale inflation of expenditure and unexplained investment in real estate in Mumbai itself were detected from preliminary examination of these documents, sources said.

Dheeraj Kumar is the biggest investor among those raided today. Twenty-four lockers have been put under prohibitory orders, and will be scrutinised only tomorrow.