A lot can happen over coffee as IT Dept raids CCD founders offices; Shares drop 4%
According to a media report, Income Tax officials began raids at Siddharthas offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and his hometown Chikmagalur in Karnataka.
Shares of Coffee Day Enterprises dropped nearly 4% after Income Tax Department raided the company's founder V. G. Siddhartha offices at multiple locations, media reports said.
At 1238 hours the shares of the company were trading at Rs 232.50 per piece, down 3.89% or Rs 9.40 on BSE.
Soon after the media reports flooded in, the exchange sought clarification from the company. However, the company has not given any reply till now.
According to a media report, Income Tax officials began raids at Siddhartha's offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai and his hometown Chikmagalur in Karnataka.
The search operations by I-T officials began in the morning and has been going on till now, as stated by Economic Times report.
Moreover, as per the report, Siddhartha is son-in-law of former Karnataka Chief Minister S.M Krishna.
Karnataka politicians has been under I-T officials scanner from quite some time now. In August, the raids were conducted at the offices and residence of Karnataka’s Energy Minister D.K.Shivakumar.
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