Enforcement department officials conducted a raid at a cardamom godown belonging to Sankar, a DMK Councillor at Bodi in Theni district on Saturday.
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Officials from the Directorate of Enforcement and GST (Intelligence unit) from Chennai, Bangalore and Kerala conducted check at a godown of a cardamom merchant on Bodi-Bodimettu Road here on Saturday.
According to reliable sources, Shankar, a DMK functionary and a ward councillor in Bodi Municipality was engaged in cardamom trade.
It is said on December 4, the GST officials had visited a cardamom merchant in Sethukuzhi in Kerala and based on some ‘inputs’ they had cross checked about a few transactions with Shankar’s office here and left. Though the officials had not revealed anything specific about the volume of transactions, reliable sources said that in the last seven months, around ₹1,200 crore worth sales may have been effected by the merchant network. Hence, they had come here for more collection of documents.
“It is basically to verify whether the trading activities had all the mandatory documents and taxes paid…” the sources said and added that as a precautionary measure, they had taken the assistance of the CISF personnel for bandobust.
The checks went on for over five hours during the day, the sources added.
Published – December 06, 2025 09:23 pm IST
