Saturday, July 23, 2011: The income tax officials today interrogated veteran actor Mammootty soon after conducting raids on allegations of amassing wealth disproportionate to his income.
The superstar was questioned for several hours after the officials, unearthed big disparities between his actual and declared sources of income. According to a senior I-T department official, the raids which began around 6 am, were carried out on 20 premises of the stars in Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Chennai, Ooty and Bangalore.
Mammootty’s residences at Panampilly Nagar in Kochi and Adayar in Chennai as well as his business establishment were raided. About 80 I-T officials from Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu were involved in the raids which are likely to continue for another couple of days.
Mammootty was at his residence in Chennai when the raids occurred, while Mohanlal was away shooting in Rameswaram. Sources said both stars cooperated with the raids and statements were taken from them during the exercise.
However, both of them have also been asked to report before the officials who are expected to take three days to complete the exercise. I-T department sources indicated that the raids were conducted after discrepancies were noticed between the returns filed by the stars and their known sources of income.
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