RID combing RB Complex shops

The Revenue Investigation Department (RID) has started investigation into the charge of revenue theft by owners of the shops that they sealed in RB Complex on March 16. "We have started checking the stocks but by today we could cover only three shops," said RID director general Tanka Mani Sharma.
Today, the traders cooperated with the investigation officers according to an understanding reached between the officials and the traders last Friday, the day shops at RB Complex re-opened. The complex had shut down for four days to protest the RID raid.
On March 16, the RID officials had gone to RB Complex to conduct a raid after getting a tip-off about VAT theft by some traders there. They sealed six shops -- B120, B121, B119, G49, G45, G304 amid a major scuffle with the traders.
The traders and their helpers surrounded the officials, manhandled them and took them hostage. They also burnt their official documents. Armed Police Force personnel had to be mobilised to free the RID officials.
On Thursday, the traders gave a written apology to the RID for manhandling RID staffers on duty. The department has, however, started legal action against owners of the six shops in RB Complex and one shop in Surya Arcade. The investigation will be completed within a week and only then the seven shops will be given clearance.
RID has started the investigation against them for alleged VAT theft and other revenue irregularities.