How Amay Patnaik's Raid in Lucknow 1981 Is Connected To Ajay Devgan's Movie- Raid.

Ajay Devgn-starrer Raid, which released on March 16, 2018, is one such film based on a real Income Tax raid, which was conducted in 1981. The raid was conducted on the property of Sardar Inder Singh, a businessman and ex-MP from Kanpur. It is considered the longest Income Tax raid in the history of Independent India.

The department had orchestrated the raids carefully. More than 90 men had gathered for the raid. As there were not enough officers to handle the job, some upper division clerks were also drafted to help, and 200 policemen had been called in to assist in case the taxmen met with any resistance. The film showed actual raid protocols being followed by the actors playing the role of the Income Tax officers.It is considered the longest Income Tax raid in India. Within hours of starting the raids, the officers had unearthed unaccounted money, jewellery and gold worth well over Rs 1 crore. By the end of the second day, when the value of the haul had risen to over Rs 1.6 crore, they realised that they were participating in one of the most successful raids in the history of the department.

The film shows violence. Well, it was taken from another incident, from the same decade.There was another income tax raid on September 14, 1989, on the factories and homes of two industrialists- paper mill owner Harish Chhabra and jewellery dealer Chitranjan Swarup. Around 88 officers were tasked with finding the black money/assets and approximated around 2 crores. The raid started normally. However, word got out that Chhabra’s assets were being raided, and he managed to get a mob to attack the IT officials, despite the presence of police there.
A lot of IT officials were brutally beaten up. A number of them were hospitalised and some were paralysed forever. To add to the humiliation, the officers who raided Chhabra’s factory were stripped naked and beaten up.
 The searches were conducted simultaneously at different properties of Sardar Inder Singh and his family members.
It was a real life IT raids that were conducted by the IRS or Indian Revenue Service back in the 80s. According to a news site, the film has been loosely based on the raids carried the then Income Tax Commissioner of Lucknow, Sharda Prasad Pandey. He was said to have carried out the longest raid in the history that lasted for more than 18 hours. In fact, there were around 90 officers who were present to carry it out and almost 45 people to count the notes.
Raid  starring Ajay Devgn and Ileana D’Cruz is released today and  receiving good comments from audience and critics.’Raid’ is the story of the longest-running Income Tax raid in the history of India. Inspired by a true case, ‘Raid’ is set in the year 1981, Lucknow With a tighter editing, slightly less focus on the wannabe love story and a lesser dose of melodrama, this Ajay Devgn-starrer had been a gripping thriller.