After he made a declaration of Rs 13,860 cr under the IDS scheme, the Income Tax Department grilled him for at least 5-6 hours.

Ahmedabad police triggerd a controversy on Sunday by disguising Mahesh Shah, the businessman who disclosed Rs 13,860 crore under IDS, in police uniform while escorting him from one place to another, says a TOI report. Following public uproar, police commissioner AK Singh sought details of the incident. Sources claim that while escorting Shah in a PCR van from his daughter’s house in Satellite locality to his flat, inspector of Satellite police station MU Masi, without consulting his seniors, made Shah wear the police uniform. Masi said the uniform was put on Shah for security reasons. “Once he was in the police vehicle, he only wore a jacket with ‘police’ written on it,” Masi told TOI.

After he made a declaration of Rs 13,860 cr under the IDS scheme, the Income Tax Department grilled him for at least 5-6 hours. But Shah has not yet disclosed the names on whose behalf he had filled a disclosure form of Rs 13,860 crore during the Income Declaration Scheme drive. Sources from IT, Ahmedabad said that Mahesh Shah, 67, “sought more time” to reveal the names of all those individuals for whom he was working with.

The IT source also added that Shah is a commissioning agent by profession and during Income Declaration Scheme (IDS) drive, he was approached by some people – either politicians or corporate or traders, to become their face and disclose the black money to the Central Government.