AMN / NEW DELHI
Anita Singhvi, the wife of senior Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi has filed her response to the Income Tax department, which had issued her a notice to explain certain jewellery purchases from stores owned by beleaguered diamantaire Nirav Modi.
She was asked to explain how much she had paid in cash and how much through cheque to purchase the valuables and jewellery from Modi’s firms a few years back.
Abhishek Manu Singhvi had earlier refuted the allegations made against his family and described the I-T action as harassment being meted out to him as he belonged to an opposition political party.
The IT department also expanded its probe into the alleged bank frauds at the Punjab National Bank and involving the Rotomac pens company as it attached 144 bank accounts and fixed deposits of the Gitanjali Gems group, promoted by Mehul Choksi.