Lucknow, Nov. 5 -- The Income Tax Department on Saturday started searches at the premises, including house, office and factory, of former MLA and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader and meat exporter Zulfikar Ahmad Bhutto, official sources said.

"Bhutto runs a meat export business in the name of HMA Group.

"The I-T teams are also carrying out searches at Bhutto's brother Haji Parvez's residence in Taj Ganj," they said.

"It is being said that the I-T teams have received information about irregularities in taxes.

"Bhutto exports meat on a large scale, but the purchase of animals is always done in cash," they added.

Additional staff may be deployed for the searches that continue, they further said.

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