"Paying The Price": Opposition Slams Tax Raids At Dainik Bhaskar Group

Tax teams carried out searches in offices of Dainik Bhaskar across many cities and the homes of its promoters.

As the media group Dainik Bhaskar and Uttar Pradesh-based TV channel Bharat Samachar were raided today over alleged tax evasion, opposition parties alleged that news outlets critical to the government were being targeted. Tax teams carried out searches in offices of Dainik Bhaskar across many cities and the homes of its promoters. Dainik Bhaskar is one of India's largest selling Hindi newspapers. A team of taxmen also searched the Lucknow office of Bharat Samachar and its editor's home in the city. Leaders of the Congress, Trinamool Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) were among those who denounced the raids.