ITANAGAR, Mar 12: An additional manpower of 116 officers and inspectors of Income Tax Department has been   deputed to the Directorate of Income Tax (Investigation) for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections by the Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, North East Region (NER), Kavita Jha (IRS).
Early this morning, the Investigation Wing of NER has issued deployment orders of 157 officials who will spread over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura to monitor election expenditure and flow of black money across the 112 districts of these states.
Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs) of 7 North East states   have been officially intimated about the deployment, executed as per the directions of Election Commission of India (ECI) to Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) in a bid to throttle flow of black money to influence elections.
The Investigation Directorate teams will monitor movement of large sums of cash or other items suspected to be used for bribing of electorate and on the basis of information or complaint. They will also conduct independent enquiry against any person indulging in such acts and verify affidavits declaring assets and liabilities filed by the candidates before ECI and election expenses of any candidate or political party. 
Investigation Directorate will also report to the Commission about the political parties which are taking donations and enjoying tax exemptions in the poll bound states without filing the statutory returns. Banks are also required to pass on information about withdrawal of more than Rs. 10 lakhs to the Nodal Officer of the Directorate, Subhrajyoti Bhattacharjee (IRS), Additional Director of Income Tax (Inv), NER. The Directorate has activated Air Intelligence Units at all airports in North East and will monitor movement of cash or valuables.
State authorities and police are also required to report movement of any suspicious cash to the I-T authorities. Principal Director of Income Tax (Inv) for NER, Mr. Sanjay Bahadur (IRS) has also issued instructions for heightened surveillance and intelligence gathering during elections.
Investigation Directorate  authorities can enter and search any building, place, vessel or aircraft if it is suspected that any unaccounted money, bullion, jewellery or other valuable article or thing is to be found there and seize the same under section 132 of Income Tax Act.  IT Release

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