Srijan scam: I-T raids Sushil Modi cousin's residence

Income Tax department sleuths Thursday conducted a raid at the residence of Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi's cousin in connection with the multi-crore Srijan scam, news agency PTI said quoting official sources.

Police personnel accompanied the IT sleuths during the raid at Rekha Modi's S P Verma Road house today afternoon.

Raids were also conducted at some places in Bhagalpur, where crores of rupees were fraudulently withdrawn from the treasury and transferred to the account of Srijan NGO, PTI report further said quoting sources.

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CBI is investigating the scam.

Opposition parties in the state have been alleging that Rekha Modi, a social activist, was involved in the scam.

Congress MLC Prem Chandra Mishra and RJD MLA Bhai Virendra have termed the action as delayed and demanded that the deputy chief minister resigns from his post, the report added.

Their contention is that he himself is in the habit of demanding resignations whenever the name of someone even remotely related to a political opponent crops up in a scandal.