New Delhi, Dec 11: The counting of unaccounted cash at the premises linked to Congress Rajya Sabha MP Dhiraj Sahu, which started on December 6 finally ended on Sunday. The Income Tax Department has recovered Rs 353 crore and this amount is recorded as the highest amount of recovery by the department in a single operation.

This development has turned into a hot political topic with both BJP and Congress engaging in a slugfest. The I-T raids started on Wednesday when the department found stacks of notes in the almirah at the premises of the Congress MP.

After discovering the huge pile of cash, the I-T department decided to rope in banks and use cash-counting machines, but many machines malfunctioned due to the huge amount of money. As per the reports, the branch of the State Bank of India (SBI) where the counting was conducted received 176 bags full of cash.

 

 

Amid the buzz around the high amount of recovery from the premises linked to Dhiraj Sahu, on which even Prime Minister Narendra Modi reacted, an old tweet of Dhiraj Sahu is doing rounds on social media where the leader raised his voice around the large amount of black money in the nation.

"I feel pained seeing so much corruption and black money in the country even after noteban. This is beyond my understanding how people can accumulate so much of black money. Only Congress can uproot corruption from the party," Dhiraj Prasad Sahu tweeted in 2022.

The BJP didn't lose the opportunity to corner Congress on the issue with it's IT Cell chief Amit Malviya sharing the old tweet of Dhiraj Sahu and said “Dhiraj Prasad Sahu has a dark sense of humour."

https://twitter.com/amitmalviya/status/1733751877219848553

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that now he understands why Opposition parties were attacking the Modi government on the misuse of investigation agencies. "It can be now understood as to why the allegation against the Modi government that it is misusing investigation agencies was made. It was because of the fear that their corruption will be exposed," Amit Shah said.

 

Taking to social media platform, X, the Congress General Secretary in-charge Communications, Jairam Ramesh said that only Dheeraj Sahu can explain the huge amounts of cash, reportedly unearthed by the income-tax authorities from his properties.

"The Indian National Congress is in no way connected with the businesses of Dheeraj Sahu, MP. Only he can explain, and should explain, how huge amounts of cash have been reportedly unearthed by the income-tax authorities from his properties," the Congress leader wrote on X.