Taking account of a report lodged by the Legal Rights Observatory (LRO), the Income Tax department has opened an investigation over the funds reportedly transferred by actor-singer Diljit Dosanjh from the UK/Canada for financially supporting the current farmers' protest in India.
Not only Dosanjh but the involvement of Punjabi music label Speed Records in funding the agitation of farmers is also under the Income Tax Department's scanner.
On December 27, the Legal Rights Observatory (LRO) lodged a complaint based on the research shared by Vijay Patel, who claimed that the record label of Speed Records is guardedly engaged in money laundering and routing operations and financing agitations against farm law.
In the complaint of LRO, it is stated that `It is to be noted that the curious case of this vanishing companies and bobbing up of its office bearers in subsequent in later companies show an elaborate network established with a well-thought-of stratagem to hoodwink Governmental Authorities there and also facilitate convenient mode for funding and supporting anti-national and secessionist activities in India.`
It is also important to note that Diljit Dosanjh has been supporting farmers who are protesting for their rights and has also secretly donated Rs 1 crore to them. It is also claimed that the IT department had already raided the houses of Punjabi-based notable singers Diljit Dosanjh, Miss Pooja, and Gippy Grewal in 2012, who were affiliated in 2012 with Dharam Seva, Speed Records, and other suspect companies in the UK.
IT department files a charge on Diljit Dosanjh and Music label Speed Records!
Monday, January 04, 2021 09:27 IST
