Jaipur/Mumbai, Sep 2 (IANS) The Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) Saturday said it would file a legal suit against a TV channel and a Hindi daily for reporting the "raids" on RCA offices in Jaipur.

"RCA president Lalit Kumar Modi has taken strong exception to the malicious, fabricated distorted reporting by a section of print and electronic media, while reporting the TDS related routine survey by Income Tax authorities in RCA office premises in Jaipur Sep 1," said a RCA statement.

"It was not a raid - merely a routine survey by the IT department with prior formal intimation to the RCA," it said.

Contradicting reports that the house and office of Modi were raided, the RCA said: "This is not true. Mr. Modi neither owns an office nor a house in Jaipur."

Mehmood Abdi, RCA's legal counsel, said the RCA and Modi has decided to take "every possible" legal action under the law against the two media organisations.

"The RCA and Mr. Modi has decided to take every possible legal action permissible under the law against all such publishers and broadcasters, particularly, India TV of Mr. Rajat Sharma and Hindi daily Punjab Kesari for deliberately twisting the facts of an interactive session which took place between the RCA officials and the Income Tax authorities relating to the issue of TDS alone," he said.

"A legal notice has been issued to India TV and Punjab Kesari."

Earlier, a senior IT official said in Mumbai that sleuths of the department Saturday raided the residential premises of Modi, also a vice-president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, for alleged tax evasion.

The raid by the Jaipur unit of the IT Department was conducted at Modi's south Mumbai residence even though Modi himself was not present there, he said.