Chandigarh, June 4
“We have nothing against Mr Bhupjit Singh, who helped unearth the multi-crore recruitment scam in Punjab,” say Income Tax officials admitting that a notice was issued to him in routine as part of the exercise by the Investigation Cell of the department. The Tribune had highlighted the predicament of the main complainant of the recruitment scam yesterday.
“We are preparing a dossier of all those who have benefited from this recruitment scam”, the IT sources said maintaining that “investigations are being held against those who have been the beneficiaries of this unprecedented scam”.
“We are trying to verify family antecedents of all those who figure in the tainted list”, the sources said claiming that evidence was being collected against each of those who had been “directly or indirectly involved”.
“Notice to Mr Bhupjit Singh went in routine and not by any design,” they reiterated. “Preparing family dossier and holding investigations is a long drawn process. But we have our eyes set on all those who have been a part of the scam”, they add revealing that holding investigations and taking cases for adjudication were two different processes of Income Tax investigations.
The beneficiaries of the recruitment scam would be served notices after sufficient evidence was established against them by preparing dossier through investigations, they added.
