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Jadeja's trail led I-T sleuths to Jaya Jaitley's house

The countrywide simultaneous raids by the Income Tax Department on cricketers, administrators of the game and bookies on Thursday led the officials to Samata Party president Jaya Jailey's house in South Delhi, where they found Ajay Jadeja's car and golf kit.

On Monday, I-T officials will open the seized lockers and start appraisal of the documents picked up during the raids spread across cities like Calcutta, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad and Patiala besides Delhi.

"We were on the trail of Jadeja and this led the officials to a house which was later found to be that of Ms Jaitley,"' sources in the I-T department confirmed today.

"'We had information that some of Jadeja's belongings were kept in that house," the sources said adding that Jaitley cooperated and her statement was recorded.

"No warrant was executed for any search. We found Jadeja's car and golf kit in the house," the sources said.

Jadeja was one of the several cricketers whose premises were raided by IT sleuths during the two-day operation.

UNI

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