Valentine’s letter: ten more persons set to receive similar summons on Feb. 14
Kohima Bureau
Kohima, Feb. 13 (EMN): The Income Tax (IT) department teams stationed in Nagaland for the ensuing state assembly elections have issued 20 summons to persons who have been detected making high cash transactions of more than INR 10 lakh from various banks.
The transactions were reported to have been made over the past two weeks; since the time the elections were notified till Feb. 13.
When contacted, the Chief Electoral Officer of Nagaland Abhijit Sinha confirmed that the IT department authorities have issued about 20 summons till Tue. to those persons who have made transactions of huge amounts in the banks.
Most of the transactions were made from banks in Dimapur and five from Kohima, it was learnt. Although the official said the names of those summoned and the banks could not be disclosed at this time, he divulged that 10 more summons are to be issued on Feb. 14.
CEO Sinha said movement of money through banking channels were being monitored by the IT department financial surveillance teams to check suspicious transactions in all the districts, while two units were deployed at Dimapur airport and railway station.
He informed that the IT department authorities will be thoroughly investigating the detected irregularly high transactions that were made during the election period.
The summons, he said, were being issued for preliminary examination of the persons involved and the purpose for which they were making the transactions. This is to ensure that the amount of money in such transactions were not being used for illegal purposes, such as enticing voters and other election related malpractices, the CEO informed.
