Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The Income Tax department is contemplating to issue a lookout notice against former transport constable Saurabh Sharma in connection with the seizure of 52 kg gold and Rs 11 crore in cash from an abandoned car in Mendori village recently. Sources said that the I-T officers suspect that the gold and cash belongs to Sharma.
Notably, Sharma went to Dubai much before the Lokayukta police raided his premises and the I-T department seized the abandoned vehicle late on Thursday night.
The I-T officials were on a round in connection with the raid against the builders and by chance they were passing through Mendori village and reached the abandoned vehicle on the basis of information. The seized gold biscuits in such a huge quantity have even surprised the I-T officers and they are trying to find the trail.
Sources said that gold biscuits are mostly smuggled through Dubai and Switzerland. The other way of getting gold biscuits is to melt gold ornaments and mould them into biscuits. However, this work does not happen in Madhya Pradesh.
The I-T department is going through the incriminating documents seized on the instance of Chetan Singh Gaur, the close aide of Sharma.
It is trying to know how much cash transaction has been done by Sharma and which are the properties where he had invested the money. The diary recovered on the instance of Gaur also contains names of many bureaucrats and white collar persons.
