The Income Tax Department is conducting raids at the premises of perfume baron and Samajwadi Party legislator Pushpraj Jain ‘Pampi’ in Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj on Friday.
Searches are being carried out at around 50 locations in poll-bound UP, the national capital region (NCR), Mumbai and other places, based on specific inputs of tax evasion, sources said. The searches are mostly on those who are involved in business of perfumery.
Pushpraj Jain Pampi is a Member of Legislative Council from Samajwadi Party in UP. He had launched the ‘Samajwadi ittra’ or perfume last month in the presence of SP president Akhilesh Yadav ahead of the 2022 UP assembly elections.