IT raids Uttar Pradesh-based bureaucrats

Lucknow, May 24: The Income Tax department officials has raids on four Uttar Pradesh-based bureaucrats here on Wednesday. Coming to details that they arrested the bureaucrats including two IAS officers, in connection with its probe against them on charges of tax evasion.

The teams covered near about 15 premises of the officers in Lucknow, Noida, Greater Noida, Meerut, Baghpat, Mainpuri and Delhi since early morning, According to the I-T officials information.

The officers against whom the action was being taken were IAS officer and Director (Health) Shankar Tewari, IAS officer and Additional CEO of Greater Noida Authority V K Sharma and his wife and Regional Transport Officer (RTO) Mamta Sharma and special secretary (prisons) S K Singh.

Meanwhile, The I-T officials said the department had been investigating charges of tax evasion against them. The department had carried out similar raids against some other UP bureaucrats last month.