Mangaluru, May 2: Income Tax department sleuths conducted a raid on the house and offices belonging to a businessman here on Tuesday evening.

It is said that the IT officials have conducted the raid on the house of Vaishnavi Express Cargo Private Limited Managing Director Rajesh GP at Morgangate in the city on Tuesday evening from 5 to 8 pm and verified the documents.

Admitting the raid, Rajesh told Varthabharati that the IT officials have verified all the documents and searched for cash. But they could not find anything. The officials have done their duty and he has also cooperated, he added.

“I am a businessman. Leaders of all political parties and politicians visit my house. Apart from them, hundreds of people of surrounding places including Hindus, Muslims, Christians are closely associated with me. But unfortunately, a leader of a national political party has failed to digest it. I have suspected his hands behind this IT raid. But I would disclose who is that person and his background in a couple of days”, Rajesh said. 

 

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Mumbai, Oct 14: Well-known Marathi actor Atul Parchure, known for his comic roles, died at a private hospital here on Monday, family sources said.

Parchure (57), who had recently recovered from cancer, was about to make a comeback on stage but suddenly developed health complications and his condition worsened in the last two days, the sources said.

He started his career as a child actor and soon rose to fame with roles in plays such as "Tarun Turk, Mhatare Ark" and "Nati Goti".

Parchure also acted in a host of Marathi and Hindi TV serials and films.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, his deputies Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar took to social media platform X to express their condolences.

Shinde condoled Parchure's untimely death on behalf of the state government and called himself one among thousands of the senior actor's fans.

"The news of his death was painful," the CM said, adding the Marathi theatre and cinema has lost a talented actor.