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Kolkata: Communist Party of India MP Gurudas Dasgupta has alleged that a Trinamool Congress Minister violated the law by using his position to prevail upon an officer of a public sector bank to issue pay orders against cash payments. Circulating a letter allegedly ‘signed' by Union Minister of State for Shipping Mukul Roy, Mr. Dasgupta told media persons that this has been done deliberately to conceal the source of money. Dismissing suggestions that he was making this an election issue, Mr. Dasgupta said that he will take up this matter with the Prime Minister and raise it in Parliament too. He will also take it up with the Election Commission, he added. The Commission has sought explanations from the Trinamool Congress as well as the chairmen of two city-based nationalised banks in connection with the alleged drawing of drafts worth over Rs.1 crore in favour of two companies through cash payment rather than paying through cheques drawn on the party's bank account. Mr. Dasgupta said that in the photocopies of the documents available with him, Mr. Roy's signature is no longer legible but a communication on his letterhead urges the Assistant General Manager of United Bank of India to issue five pay orders aggregating Rs.1.23 crore favouring an audio visual company. Each of the pay orders was Rs.25 lakh. “I will take this matter up with the Prime Minister,” Mr. Dasgupta said. He said that as per an Income Tax Amendment moved following a Budget proposal made by the then Finance Minister four years ago, purchase of demand drafts for more than Rs.50,000 in cash even with a PAN number is forbidden.
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