EOW produces challan against 24 for tax evasion

The State Bureau of Investigation of Economic Offenses, Madhya Pradesh formerly Economic Offence Wing (EOW), on Wednesday produced a challan in the special court against 24 persons for tax evasion worth more than Rs 8 crore. The challan was produced in the court after seven years of investigations that identified 30 accused. The investigating agency left out six public servants who are named as accused in the case.
The much-talked about Mandi Tax evasion scam in Indore dates back to 2002 in which six officers, including Lalit Dahima, a state administrative service officer, and 24 others were accused of causing a loss of Rs 8 crore to the state.
The EOW today produced challan against an ex-employee of Indore Mandi Omprakash Kanungo and 23 businessmen named Sanjay son of Mansukhlal Mehta, Jagdish son of Chironjilal Tiwari, Dilip son of Ramdas Agarwal, Ashish son of Ramesh Gupta, Anil son of Satyanarayan Mittal, Praveen son of Shiv Swaroop Jain, Anand son of Ramesh Chandra Gupta, Amit son of Satyanarayan Garg, Ravi son of Subhash Kakani, Manish son of Sevaram Goyal, Chandra Shekhar son of Rameshwar Agrawal, Avesh son of Omprakash Garg, Sachin son of Omprakash Mangal, Harish son of Tikamchand Galkar, Ashwin son of Babulal Goyal, Saurabh son of Narayan Mangal, Anand son of Rajendra Jain, Kailash Chandra son of Ram Sahay, Murarilal son of Damodar Agarwal, Sanjay son of Banwarilal Garg, Babulal son of Damodar Agarwal, Shyamsunder son of Badriprasad Agrawal, and Banwarilal son of Puranmal Garg.