In a major, The New Indian impact, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) initiated a probe into the ₹37.5 lakh Goods and Services Tax bill slapped on a poor farmer in Bihar’s Khagaria.
The New Indian correspondent, under whose byline this story is being published, was the first one to take up the cause of Girish Yadav on social media.
A day after The New Indian highlighted how a poor farmer in Bihar’s Khagaria received a GST notice of ₹37.5 lakh, the CBIC on Monday said that they had contacted the victim and found that the firm in Rajasthan’s Pali was set up “without his knowledge” by apparently misusing his PAN card, which he had submitted for opening a bank account.
The story started when The New Indian correspondent posted a video of Girish Yadav, a resident of Bihar’s Khagaria Maghauna village under Alauli block, on Twitter on Sunday evening. In the video, Yadav was seen narrating his ordeal, how he had received a GST notice of ₹37.5 lakh.
Source: The New Indian
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