The
Income
Tax
Department
on
March
3,
conducted
searches
at
the
properties
of
directors
Anurag
Kashyap,
Vikas
Bahl,
and
actor
Taapsee
Pannu
in
connection
with
Anurag's
production
house
Phantom
Films.
The
department
had
also
conducted
raids
at
twenty
premises
linked
to
Taapsee
Pannu,
Anurag
Kashyap
and
Phantom
Films
in
Mumbai
and
Pune.
The
IT
Department
is
also
searching
a
talent
management
agency
in
Mumbai
including
the
properties
of
Shibhashish
Sarkar
(CEO
Reliance
Entertainment),
Afsar
Zaidi
(CEO
Exceed)
and
Vijay
Subramaniam
(CEO
Kwan).
Kwan
Entertainment
and
Exceed
Entertainment
are
touted
to
be
one
of
the
most
well-known
celebrity
management
agencies
in
Mumbai.
For
the
unversed,
directors
Anurag
Kashyap,
Vikas
Bahl,
Vikramaditya
Motwane
and
producer
Madhu
Mantena
had
come
together
to
establish
the
production
company,
Phantom
Films.
Reliance
Entertainment
had
procured
50
per
cent
stake
in
the
company
in
March
2015.
The
company
was
dissolved
in
the
year
2018
following
sexual
assault
charges
against
filmmaker
Vikas
Bahl
by
a
former
employee
of
Phantom
Films
in
the
wake
of
the
#MeToo
movement.