The Income Tax Department had conducted a surprise raid at the homes and offices of Vijay, Samantha and Nayanthara. The residences of joint producers of Puli like Kalaipuli S.Thaanu, Shibu, Selvakumar, Madurai Anbu, financier Ramesh, director Chimbudevan and other members of the crew were also visited.
Starting from 7 A.M. they searched 35 places in Chennai, Madurai, Cochin, Trivandrum, Hyderabad including Vijay’s resort, office and residence at the same time. When questioned the IT people about the reason for the raid they said that it is connected to the Puli. It seems that they have found lots of investment related to it were unexplained.
They also say that an anonymous information from someone suspected that crores of money for Puli were evaded of taxes. On the other hand, Samantha’s and Nayanthara’s houses were raided because of the failure of submission of payment documents.
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