The Income Tax Department Thursday carried out searches at two premises of a kin of Imran Reza Ansari, a former minister in the PDP-BJP coalition, for alleged tax evasion, officials said here.
They said the income tax officials, assisted by the Jammuand Kashmir police and the CRPF, carried out the searches at a business complexin the upmarket Karan Nagar where locations of North Point Complex weresearched by the tax personnel.
Later, a team was sent to search another premises of thefamily at Alamgiri Bazar in the downtown Srinagar.
The income tax officials maintained that Thursday’s raidswere carried out on a business family and were in no way connected to Ansari, apolitician who switched over to People’s Conference led by Sajad Lone.
Ansari’s sister is married to the family whose premises havebeen raided.