Allahabad:
Three people have been arrested in connection with the assault on Income Tax officials during a raid in a city-based hospital injuring 20 of the officials, police said.
An FIR was registered at the Keedganj police station, hours after the raid and the subsequent assault on IT sleuths took place, police said.
The FIR was following a direction from the Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police AC Sharma whom senior officials of the Income Tax department met in Lucknow and complained about the behaviour of the staff of Jeevan Jyoti hospital, they said.
More than 30 people, including the hospital's owner AK Bansal, were named in the FIR following which three staff members of the hospital, including the security guard who was on duty when the assault took place, were arrested in the wee hours, police said.
The FIR has been lodged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) dealing with assault and causing grievous injury to deter a public servant from doing his duty.
Raids were being carried out to arrest other people including Mr Bansal, police said.
Additional Director (Investigation) Income Tax Department Ajay Pratap Singh told reporters that simultaneous raids were conducted at 15 places, 13 of them in Allahabad and one each in Gorakhpur and Delhi, following allegations of tax evasion by Mr Bansal and his wife Vandana who run a number of hospitals, clinics and nursing schools in the city and elsewhere.
Mr Singh had claimed that computers and other important documents have been seized from the hospital for investigation purposes.