SURAT: Lured by the government's decision on the reward of up-to Rs 5 crore on providing information on the persons having
benami property, the Surat Income Tax department has received over 80 application till now.
Sources said that the department has started investigating on the leads received from the informers and after the scrutiny the individual applicants will be rewarded as per the policy.
Until now the I-T has been providing 20 percent reward money for the information shared on the benami property.
A senior I-T officer said "The flow KFC information is still continuing in the office. There are number of cases on which we have already started working.”