I-T Dept Attaches Properties Worth Rs 1000 Cr Linked To Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister's several Benami properties have been attached by the Income Tax department.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar (File Photo)

New Delhi: The Income Tax (I-T) department has provisionally attached several allegedly benami properties linked to Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and senior NCP leader Ajit Pawar and his family members.

News agency ANI reported that the Income Tax department has attached Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar's five properties worth Rs 1,000 crore. These properties include Pawar's office in Mumbai.

According to ABP News sources, the department has also attached a flat worth about Rs 20 crore based in South Delhi. Pawar's office located at Nirmal Tower is worth around Rs 25 crore.

The I-T department has attached Jarandeshwar Sugar Factory, which is worth around Rs 600 crore, and a resort named Nilaya in Goa, which is worth around Rs 250 crore.

As many as 27 plots of land across Maharashtra, whose market value is being said to be Rs 500 crore, have been attached too.

Last month, the I-T department conducted raids on the houses and companies of Pawar's sisters.

In October, they raided at least 70 premises allegedly linked to Ajit Pawar and others, and had said at the time that it unearthed proof of unaccounted incomes of around Rs 184 crore.

The I-T department sleuths had swooped on two unnamed realty companies in Mumbai, related to Ajit Pawar's family and other unidentified individuals/entities associated with them, during the raids simultaneously carried out in Pune and Baramati, as well as in Goa and Jaipur.

The sleuths claimed to have gathered evidence of prima-facie unaccounted and 'benami' transactions, incriminating documents, etc from the two realty groups.