{"id":89511,"date":"2021-04-03T19:16:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T13:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=89511"},"modified":"2021-04-03T20:27:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T14:57:46","slug":"old-images-viral-to-falsely-show-cash-gold-sized-from-mk-stalins-brother-in-law-in-it-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-images-viral-to-falsely-show-cash-gold-sized-from-mk-stalins-brother-in-law-in-it-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Old images viral to falsely show cash, gold sized from MK Stalin’s son-in-law in IT raid"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sixteenth legislative assembly election of Tamil Nadu is scheduled to be held on April 6, 2021. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Madurai on April 2. On the same day, DMK chief MK Stalin’s son-in-law Sabareesan was raided by Income Tax officials. NDTV<\/a> reported that the search started around 8 am at four places in Chennai owned by Sabareesan and his associates.<\/p>\n

In the backdrop of this, several social media users have shared four images and claimed that \u20b9700 crores in cash, 260 kg of gold and unaccounted documents worth \u20b93,000 crores were seized in the raid. This claim is particularly viral on WhatsApp.<\/p>\n

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It has also been shared without the images.<\/p>\n

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#BREAKING<\/a> : Chennai :-<\/p>\n

Income Tax seluths raids Senthamarai’s home unearthed Rs 700 crore, 260 Kgs gold bars & Rs 30,000 crore unaccounted value property documents seized: Sources#tamilnaduelection2021<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mayank Jindal (TC) (@MJ_007Club) April 3, 2021<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Several Tamil users have shared this claim as well. Facebook user Suresh Bala shared the claim<\/a> and posted a clip from a regional channel. His post was shared over 5,000 times.<\/p>\n

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The claim is in fact widespread in Tamil.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Jaya Tv Manickam (@manickamjayatv) April 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Old images shared with false claim<\/h4>\n

Multiple media outlets<\/a> including NDTV and Tamil Nadu-based Sun TV reported that the Income Tax Department found \u20b91.36 lakh in the raid which was returned after family members produced documents accounting for the money they said was for household purposes.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Sun News (@sunnewstamil) April 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Journalist Shabir Ahmed tweeted also tweeted the copy of documents that states the amount of the cash seized from Sabareesan. The document also carries Sabareesan signature acknowledging that the entire amount was returned.<\/p>\n

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That’s all… \u20b91,36,000 was found during the raids & it was returned to MK Stalin’s son-in-law by Income Tax officials. pic.twitter.com\/m6saZ7ZjgM<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Shabbir Ahmed (@Ahmedshabbir20) April 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Social media claims have exaggerated the amount recovered during the raid. Furthermore, upon performing a reverse image search, we found that the viral images have been lifted from old reports.<\/p>\n

Image 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This image is from 2019. As per ANI, Telangana’s Khammam police seized 320 bundles of \u20b92000 denomination fake notes (around \u20b96.4 crores).<\/p>\n

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Telangana: Khammam police today arrested five persons for cheating public in guise of exchanging Rs. 2,000 denomination currency notes and offering 20% commission.
\n320 bundles of Rs. 2000 denomination fake notes (around Rs 6.4 crores) seized. pic.twitter.com\/ptulXGi1Qb<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 ANI (@ANI) November 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Images 2 and 3<\/strong><\/p>\n