Una, 21 May- The District Expenditure Monitoring Committee of Una held a meeting on Wednesday to review the cases of cash seizure by the static monitoring teams and flying squads formed for election expenditure monitoring. District Treasury Officer Vishal Raghuvanshi and Credit Scheme Officer Sanjay Namran participated in this meeting chaired by Additional Deputy Commissioner and District Expenditure Monitoring Committee Chairman Mahendra Pal Gurjar.
The meeting mainly discussed the case of significant seizure of Rs 14,08,170/- which was seized from the personal vehicle of a person resident of Bhaira, Una by the static surveillance team deployed in Chintpurni assembly constituency. The seizure took place near Thathal on May 17, 2024, in which the said person failed to produce documents or the source of the cash. The seized amount was deposited in the Sub-Treasury, Amb. The committee has now decided to hand over the seized amount to the Deputy Commissioner of Tax and Excise, Una.
Mahendra Pal Gurjar said that a letter in this regard was received from the office of the Deputy Director of Income Tax (Investigation) of Parwanoo on May 21. In this, a request was made to hand over the seized amount to the Income Tax Officer of Una.
After detailed deliberations and examination of relevant documents, the Committee has directed SDM (ARO) Amb and Treasury Officer Amb to hand over the seized cash to the Deputy Commissioner of Taxes and Excise, Una as per the warrant of the Income Tax Department.