I-T searches at premises of Bharat Hotels, Cargo Motors Group

New Delhi: The Income Tax Department has launched searches at multiple locations of the Bharat Hotels Limited group and a leading automobile dealer in connection with a tax evasion probe, officials said on Monday.

About eight premises linked to Bharat Hotels CMD Jyotsna Suri and promoters of Cargo Motors, dealers of Tata vehicles, are being searched in and around the national capital.

The Bharat Hotels group owns the Lalit Group of hotels in the country.

The searches, they said, were launched on Sunday night and are related to a tax evasion probe being conducted by the department.

Details of the action are awaited.