The Income Tax officers revealed that the pastors have been operating churches under the guise of healing ministries, which are self-styled congregations that accept significant amount of funding from foreign nations. These are either registered as autonomous religious entities or as societies led by a pastor.
The ex-IPS officer Ram Narayan Singh, on whose premises the raid was conducted by the IT Dept, is said to be closely associated with the Samajwadi Party.
The IT dept announced today that Chinese mobile makers Xiaomi and Oppo had not complied with the regulatory mandate prescribed under the Income-tax Act, 1961