It has been hot news about IT raids being carried out on Director Sukumar and Mythri Movie Makers Production House producers Naveen Yerneni, Ravi Shankar Yalamanchili houses. As the raids were carried out for four days and they finished their scrutiny last night. Dur to this, Sukumar was not seen anywhere to promote and at success meet of Virupaksha for which he has provided screenplay and acted as one of the producers.
These IT raids on Sukumar and Mythri Movie Makers homes and offices have stopped the shoot of Pushpa 2 too. A team of IT department from New Delhi also conducted searches at the residences of promoters of Mythri Movie Makers. The production house is probed for allegedly violating investment restrictions by bringing in funds from abroad twice in less than four months after December 2022.
As Sukumar is also associated with the Production House as joint producer under his Sukumar Writings banner for some films, he is also came under scanner. There have been many news in circulation that two MLA's are finding the production house through back channel and both producers and director have procured huge acres of land surrounding Hyderabad. But, nothing concrete came out.
IT officials has completed their search and will file.a report about their findings. But, reportedly IT department found nothing illegal in any transactions. It seems the producer and director are clean and their transactions are transparent. However let's wait for IT departments official statement regarding in this matter.