An elderly person of Rourkela suffered a brain stroke and his condition grew critical when a four- member GST officials’ team raided his house, claiming him as a fraudster. However, after a three-hour search, they finally said they were at a wrong address.

Meanwhile, victim Sibnath Prasad (72), a retired employee residing at A/104, Sector - 8 area of the city, has been battling with his life at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar for last two days.

The incident has come as a shocking development for the locals, whereas the victim's family members are considering to consult legal experts to get the compensation from the raid officials.

Sources said Prasad had been allotted the quarter about a year back on licence fee basis, available for retired RSP employees and has been staying here since then. Prasad has been staying with his wife and one son whereas three of his daughters are married off and staying outside Rourkela.

Sources said at about 5.30 am on Wednesday, four persons, including one woman, had entered Prasad's house identifying themselves as the GST officials and had shown a search warrant. They claimed that they had allegation that on the address, crores of rupees transactions are made without payment of tax.

Although Prasad and his family members pleaded their innocence, the officials were in no mood to listen and went ahead with their search operation. Prasad then had no other option than to cooperate for the raid. After almost of two hours long search operation of their house, Prasad reportedly had felt uncomfortable and had suddenly fallen down.

The family members were panicked and wanted to rush him to hospital, after which two officials helped him to rush to the Ispat General Hospital in their vehicle, where as two other officials continued their raid, in presence of Prasad's wife.

“The doctors at the IGH stated that the condition of my father was serious as according to them my father already had a brain stroke due to high blood pressure," said Surendra Prasad, son of Sibnath Prasad.

"As an impact of the stroke, he also had a paralytic attack on his right side," Surendra said. As per the advice of the doctors, the family members had shifted Prasad to a Bhubaneswar based hospital.

According to sources, the GST officials on the other hand had wound up their raid, stating them that they had got some wrong address as they found nothing related to the allegation. The family members of Prasad are now in shock, as they are not only facing mental agony but also have to spend huge amount of money on account of treatment of Prasad.

After this unpleasant incident, all our family members are in shock," Surendra said. "Some of our well wishers have advised us to lodge case against the GST officials who had come to raid. But at the moment, we are focussing on my father's health," he informed.

Mystery however shrouds over the GST officials’ entry into the house of Prasad for raid as the officials are yet to be identified. The local GST officials meanwhile have denied of having conducted any such raid.