<h1>Tax evasion in healthcare: searches expose invoice manipulation, bogus procurement and unrecorded referral payments, prompting further probes.</h1> Income tax authorities' searches uncovered widespread non compliance by hospital groups, including parallel books of account, systematic under reporting of cash receipts through invoice removal or deflation, procurement of bogus or inflated invoices with cashbacks evidencing suppression of profits, ineligible deduction claims, unrecorded referral payments tied to patient invoices, and benami transactions; seizures and restraints were effected and further forensic investigations are in progress.