: Dainik Bhaskar media group’s offices raided by tax officials #IndiaNEWS The Income Tax department on Thursday carried out raids at several offices of the Dainik Bhaskar media group across the country,

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Dainik Bhaskar media group’s offices raided by tax officials #IndiaNEWS
The Income Tax department on Thursday carried out raids at several offices of the Dainik Bhaskar media group across the country, reported PTI. The raids are reportedly linked to alleged tax evasions by the organisation.The raids are underway in Bhopal and Indore in Madhya Pradesh, Jaipur in Rajasthan, Ahmedabad in Gujarat and a few locations in Maharashtra, according to The Hindu. The Income Tax department has not issued a statement on the raids so far, but an unidentified official told the newspaper that they received information about alleged tax evasions by various companies of the group.The newspaper has put out an online statement titled, “The government is scared of true journalism; it is trying to browbeat the Bhaskar group, which highlighted dead bodies in the Ganga river and the true number of Covid-19 deaths.�Dainik Bhaskar had widely reported on the second wave of Covid-19 and its devastating effects. In a series of reports, the newspaper was critical of the Centre’s claims on vaccination figures, underreporting of deaths, floating bodies in Ganga river and the toll due to oxygen shortages.The newspaper said that mobiles phones of employees present in the office have been confiscated, and they are being prevented from leaving the premises. “The employees on night shift have also been barred from going out of the office,� the statement...Read more

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