Congress got cash from Nath: Govt sources on IT raids in 2019

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Income-tax department searches in April 2019 revealed that Congress party received crores of rupees in cash from Megha Engineering and party leader Kamal Nath among other, government insiders alleged...

The total receipts in cash by the main opposition party between 2013-14 and April 2019 was to the extent of Rs 626 crore, they claimed...

Cash receipts from Megha Engineering were for contracts awarded to the company, the sources alleged...

The I-T department has established and corroborated these cash receipts in multiple ways such as documents found during search, WhatsApp messages and statements recorded, the government sources claimed...

"After the high court rejected the Congress petition, they resorted to demonstrations to spread falsehoods," party spokesperson Zafar Islam said..

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