CHENNAI, Jan. 21 -- A day after three archbishops of the Catholic Church called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at New Delhi, sleuths from the Department of Income Tax knocked on the doors of the palatial residence of Paul Dhinakaran, head of the Jesus Calls ministry and India's leading evangelist at Chennai and 27 other establishments owned by him across the State.

The premises that were raided include the Karunya Institute of Technology and Science at Coimbatore and Prayer Towers across the State. According to sources in the department, the raids were following specific inputs about large scale evasion of tax and non-disclosure of funds received from sources abroad for religious conversion.

Paul Dhinakaran is the son of late DGS Dhinaka...