The controversy emerged from documents seized during the raids, revealing that the producers of Vijay's 2015 movie 'Puli' had paid him an amount of Rs 4.93 crore in cash, in addition to the Rs 16 crore remuneration paid via cheque.
These events have conferred a sharp backlash for his administration as he has been getting attacked from the leaders of the allied parties for the first time over the contentious bill.
The authorities said that the exercise would continue for some more time and stated that the exact time frame to call the operation closed rests entirely on the teams on the ground.
BBC's offices in Delhi and Mumbai had come under the scanner of the Income Tax department as the IT sleuths have stormed the offices and unfolded raids on Tuesday- February 14.
After Ravichandran took up this role in IT, one of the important factors that he discussed was the monetary transactions between the politicians and the people in the Tamil cinema industry.
The raids were on an unprecedented scale as the Central agency targeted various Tamil producers from Kalaippuli S Thanu, SR Prabhu, and KE Gnanavel Raja besides Anbu Chezhiyan.
