The Income Tax Department carried out a search operation on 03.08.2022 on a Jaipur based group, engaged in the business of gems and jewellery, hospitality and real estate. The search operation has covered more than three dozen premises located in Jaipur and Kota.

During the course of the search, large number of incriminating documentary and digital evidences have been found and seized.

 The analysis of seized evidences of real estate business reveals that the group has been indulging in large scale tax evasion by accepting on-money in cash on the sale of residential dwellings and land which has not been recorded in the regular books of account. Further, evidences pertaining to out-of-books sale of gems and jewellery were also unearthed during the search.

The search also revealed that the unaccounted income so earned has been invested in land, construction of luxury hotel and has also been used in financing cash loans. The seized evidences contain details of interest income earned on these cash loans which has not been recorded in the books of account. 

A preliminary investigation indicates that the group has indulged in generation of unaccounted income exceeding Rs. 150 crore. So far, the search operation has resulted in seizure of unaccounted assets exceeding Rs.11 crore. 

Further investigations are in progress.

Tax evasion uncovered through searches reveals unrecorded cash sales and concealed income, prompting asset seizures and ongoing probes. Income Tax searches on a Rajasthan business group in gems and jewellery, hospitality and real estate uncovered documentary and digital evidence of systematic tax evasion through acceptance of on-money for sales and out-of-books transactions, unrecorded interest income from cash loans, and investment of unaccounted receipts into land and hotel construction; seizures and further investigations are continuing to quantify unaccounted income and recover assets.