Income Tax officials are currently conducting raids at more than 50 properties of private real estate developer G Square in Tamil Nadu.
The raids are being conducted at the head office in Chennai, Coimbatore and several other places across Tamil Nadu.
Besides G-Square offices, residence of M K Mohan, DMK legislator from Anna Nagar constituency in Chennai city, is also being searched by the IT sleuths premises of G Square Realtors.
Outside Tamil Nadu, the I-T sleuths are also conducting searches on the company offices in Karnataka.
The searches began around 7 am in multiple offices of the company located in Chennai, Coimbatore and in Karnataka’s Bengaluru, as well as at the residence of the company owner Ramajayam alias Bala.
According to reports in local media, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were deployed outside the premises where raids are being conducted.
Latest raids come a week after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president K Annamalai released ‘DMK Files’ in which he provided details of vast properties owned by the DMK first family, Ministers, MLAs and MPs.