IT department to check tax-evaders with portable forensic labs

To outsmart tax evaders who resort to delete their financial data or hide it in password-protected devices during search operations, the

I-T department has started including portable forensic labs and experts in its team.
The department has unearthed links to more than Rs 1,000 crore money in the last few searches with the help of cyber forensics, according to sources.
The search teams now visit premises of assesses equipped with pre-wiped disks for imaging and cloning hard drives, portable labs for previewing computer hard disks, evidence bags and tags to pack, label and transport the imaged and cloned data to its labs.
Taxpayers and evaders have increasingly started using high-end softwares like 'logic bomb' which deletes all files as soon as investigators try to source information from the hardware.