Sasi seeks till Feb 10 to appear before I-T
Sivakumar.B@timesgroup.com
Chennai: Former chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s aide V K Sasikala has asked income tax officials to give her till February 10 to appear before them in connection with the department’s probe of undeclared investments by the sidelined AIADMK leader and her family members.
I-T officials — who are also investigating how a confidential note regarding the multi-crore gutka scam the department had sent to the former chief minister through the then DGP made its way to Sasikala’s rooms in Jayalalithaa’s Veda Nilayam residence — summoned Sasikala after searches in November and December of more than 187 properties linked to her, her relatives and friends.
“We want to question Sasikala about the documents we found,” a senior I-T official said. “We presented an affidavit in the Madras high court based on [the note from] the file of former DGP Ashok Kumar in the gutka case that we found in rooms that she occupied.” He said the department had last week served the summons on Sasikala, who has since February been incarcerated in Bengaluru’s Parappana Agrahara Central Prison in the Jayalalithaa illegal wealth case.
“We have received a letter through her advocate on Tuesday stating that she is on a vow of silence and will be able to appear only after February 10,” the official said. I-T officials also seized pen drives and computer hard disks from the two rooms Sasikala occupied in Veda Nilayam.
Sivakumar.B@timesgroup.com
Chennai: Former chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s aide V K Sasikala has asked income tax officials to give her till February 10 to appear before them in connection with the department’s probe of undeclared investments by the sidelined AIADMK leader and her family members.
I-T officials — who are also investigating how a confidential note regarding the multi-crore gutka scam the department had sent to the former chief minister through the then DGP made its way to Sasikala’s rooms in Jayalalithaa’s Veda Nilayam residence — summoned Sasikala after searches in November and December of more than 187 properties linked to her, her relatives and friends.
“We want to question Sasikala about the documents we found,” a senior I-T official said. “We presented an affidavit in the Madras high court based on [the note from] the file of former DGP Ashok Kumar in the gutka case that we found in rooms that she occupied.” He said the department had last week served the summons on Sasikala, who has since February been incarcerated in Bengaluru’s Parappana Agrahara Central Prison in the Jayalalithaa illegal wealth case.
“We have received a letter through her advocate on Tuesday stating that she is on a vow of silence and will be able to appear only after February 10,” the official said. I-T officials also seized pen drives and computer hard disks from the two rooms Sasikala occupied in Veda Nilayam.
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