907 acres linked to Kalki ashram attached

Sources in the Income Tax department said that land measuring more than 400 acres in Sathyavedu, on Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh border, and sites in Coimbatore, Ooty, Belgaum in Karnataka have been attached. All these properties are linked to Vijayakumar’s son NKV Krishna and his wife, Preetha.

Officials said that most of the plots were registered in the name of faculty members, otherwise called Dasajis, working in Oneness university, a spiritual school run by the Kalki Ashram who are linked to Krishna and Preetha. “These plots were bought by Krishna and his wife but were registered in the name of the trusted faculty members,” claimed sources.

The provisional attachments were carried under the section 24 (3) of the Benami Property Act and all the local land registration offices were informed about the attachment, the sources added.

Last October, tax evasion and financial embezzlement of Rs 800 crore was detected during thefive-day raids in 40 over premises of the Kalki ashram and related premises.

The officials seized Rs 44 crore cash, 90 kg of gold, foreign currencies worth Rs 20 crore besides unearthing documents of properties over 4,000 acres of land. The investigators had also found that undisclosed investment were made by the Kalki family in Dubai, Africa, British Virgin Islands to the tune of Rs100 crore.