Cash haul in Odisha I-T raids goes past Rs 300 crore

Bhubaneswar, 10/12: The cash seizure in the income-tax department’s searches against an Odisha-based distillery company has become the ‘highest-ever’ such haul in a single action conducted by any probe agency in the country and gone past Rs 300 crore, official sources said.The marathon raids against Boudh Distillery Private Limited, its promoters and others entered the fifth day on Sunday. The raids were launched on December 6 by the taxman on charges of tax evasion and ‘off-the-book’ transactions.