The Income Tax department has issued notices to Knight Riders Sports Private Limited and Gameplan Sports to appear before it in connection with the recent search operations at the offices of the two entities. "We have issued notices to both Knight Rider Sports and Gameplan," Director General of IT investigation (East) Vinod Khurana told PTI.

He said the two entities had asked for time till Monday for appearing before the IT department.

Asked whether the IT sleuths had stumbled across any irregularities so far, Khurana said that the officials were still examining papers.

He said the Kolkata IT office would only look into details like corporate endorsements, ticket receipts and the various heads under which expenditure was incurred and reflected in the books of the two companies.