chennai former tamil nadu chief secretary p rama mohana rao who was removed from the post following income tax raids on his residence and office on december 21 confronted the centre and the state government on tuesday by terming the it raids as an assault on the constitution addressing a press conference at his residence in chennai rao said his life was under threatrao asserted that he continued to be the chief secretary of the state as no transfer order was served on himnoting that the centre had no respect for the state government rao asked where is the state government if madam jayalalithaa were alive would this have happened to tamil nadu this state government has no guts to serve me a transfer or der i claim i am still the chief secretary appointed by puratchi thalaivi honourable madam jayalalithaa he saidrao also rubbished the it raids saying the officials got only rs 112 lakh in cash and 40 sovereigns of gold jewellery besides 25kg silver mostly in the form of idols from his premises he released copies of the panchanamas issued by the it department as proofin this state in the absence of madam there is no security he said rao said he cannot be intimidated as he was trained by jayalalithaa right from his days as a collector he added if the it department had wanted to raid his house or office the union home minister should have asked the chief minister to remove me from the cs post before conducting the raids he did not know whether the centre had sought chief minister o panneerselvams clearance rao said he was being targeted because he was being seen as a big hurdle for many forces i fear my life is in danger he said the raids were illegal as the warrant issued by the it did not mention his nameraids on rao as per rulesunfazed by the allegations made by former tn chief secretary p rama mohana rao top officials of the it department said the investigation was proceeding in the right direction and that they had enough documentary evidence to establish the wrongdoings by rao and his family officials said the diaries of sand mining baron shekhar reddy and some other documents retrieved from reddys associates linked the former chief secretary and his son to thembasically we see the allegations made by the former chief secretary as political posturing as he could not counter the provisions of the it actsince he was a top official we doubly made sure the rule book was followed and deny all his charges against our department a senior official saidwatch i was under house arrest tns exchief secretary blasts centre for raids