bangalore the raids in the city on traders refusing to issue bills continue the drive was launched on june 3 and in 10 days rs 21 lakh has been collected by the commercial tax departmenton saturday undercover agents wreaked terror on errant shopkeepers in gandhinagar bvk iyengar road and other places to preempt shopkeepers from calling up fellow traders to warn them of the raid officials swooped down simultaneously on 12 shops and the operation was complete in 40 minutes eight shops were penalised officials in the guise of customers bought goods ranging from a leather purse worth rs 230 to jewellery worth thousandsat one shop in gandhinagar assistant commissioner prabhakar rao made a purchase for rs 230 the shopowner did not issue a bill once he walked out of the shop officials swung into action immediately by disclosing their identity and asked for the invoice register then they slapped a penalty of rs 5000 on the spot for not recording the business transactionthe team of officials was headed by joint commissioner investigation intelligence harsh gupta they checked if traders registered the business transaction the cash boxes were scanned to see if they tallied with the cash registers most often excess cash sometimes to the tune of rs 8000 was foundgupta told traders to maintain the records as per law he said the exercise would create awareness among commercial establishments and consumers to be fair in their business transaction and not evade taxes