hyderabad income tax it officials on wednesday conducted searches on the properties of two bharat rashtra samithi brs mlas marri janardhan reddy and pailla shekar reddy and seized an undisclosed amount of cash and jewelleryit sleuths of the hyderabad investigation unit conducted searches at 60 locations including residences and offices of companies linked to the twojanardhan reddy owns jc brothers a retail textile chain and jc brothers holdings limited and infra projects according to his affidavit filed with the election commission of india janardhan reddy who represents nagarkurnool in the assembly had stated that he owns shares in jc brothers retail private jc brothers projects jc spinning mills and jc brothers holdingshis family members marri sashidhar reddy and marri madhumathi are current directors of jc brothers holdings income tax officials were reportedly looking into suspected tax evasion in retail showrooms and infra projects of jc brothers the it department has also conducted searches on the properties of bhongir mla pailla shekar reddy vaishnavi group allegedly linked to shekar reddy has also been searched searches were also conducted at hilland technologies private limited at kothapet in the cityshekar reddy was previously associated with theertha projects private limited and sri lorven syndicate private limited they suspect tax evasion by real estate companies shekar reddy ownstheertha projects private ltd is part of theertha group and is into real estate software drilling mining and has presence in lusaka zambia in africa hyderabad mangaluru and udupi during the searches many brs activists gathered at the properties of janardhan reddy and raised slogans against the bjpled union government alleging that the it searches were politically motivatedmeanwhile medak mp k prabhakar reddy claimed there were no searches on his properties and if the it wing serves any notices he would file a reply as his records were clean