23 ViewsA superintendent with the Central Goods and Services Tax (GST) department and two others were arrested in Surat in Gujarat for allegedly extorting Rs. 12 lakh from a shopkeeper, a police official said on Friday. The CSGST superintendent, his driver and one more person were held on the complaint of Dhirendrasinh Rajpurohit at Varachha […]
CA arrested for taking Rs 26 lakh bribe in name of I-T officials
22 ViewsThe Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) arrested a chartered accountant (CA) Ankush Sareen, a resident of Ludhiana, for taking a bribe of Rs 26 lakh from a man in the name of income tax officers based in Chandigarh. Read more at : THE TIMES OF INDIA
Directed investigating officer to issue advance notice of 72 hours to effect the arrest after investigation
55 ViewsThe Hon’ble Bombay High Court in Neha Agarwal v. Superintendent, Anti-Evasion, CGST [Anticipatory Bail Application No. 2644 of 2022 dated December 7, 2022] has directed the investigating officer to issue advance notice of 72 hours to the assessee to effect the arrest if necessary, after investigation in a case. Further directed the assessee to […]
Class 8 dropout dupes traders by posing as GST officer, arrested Siddharthnagar
109 ViewsA man was arrested in Siddharthnagar district for duping several traders by posing as the joint commissioner in GST department. The accused, however, turned out to be a Class 8 dropout. Police said that the accused, Hiralal Yadav, was nabbed after a trader in Biskohar Bazar noticed that Yadav was unable to check the […]
CBI arrests 9 Income Tax officials for joining dept without exams
172 ViewsThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested nine Income Tax (I-T) officers in Maharashtra’s Nagpur for allegedly joining the department without appearing for the mandatory examination conducted by the Staff Selection Commission. The anti-corruption branch of the CBI arrested the nine accused officers on Monday. An offence was registered in 2018 after it came […]
ED raids seven locations, mostly CA offices in Nagpur
82 ViewsThe Enforcement Directorate conducted searches at seven locations, mostly offices of Chartered Accountants, in Maharashtra’s Nagpur city on Thursday, an ED official said. The searches were being conducted in connection with an offence registered in Mumbai, the official said without giving more details. “An ED team from Mumbai along with their counterparts in Nagpur […]
CBI arrests I-T officer for accepting bribe of Rs 5 lakh
85 ViewsThe Central Bureau of Investigation arrested an income tax officer at Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh. The complainant had alleged that his firm is engaged in the manufacturing of electric switches in Maharashtra, however, income tax assessment of the said firm was being done at […]
Hyderabad: Two arrested for posing as GST officials, dupe persons of Rs 28 crore
148 ViewsThe Cyberabad Special Operations Team (Balanagar) zone arrested two persons who were posing as GST officials and had cheated 18 persons to the tune of Rs 28 crore. The arrested persons are Burujukindi Narayana Goud (57) of Rajanna Sircilla district and Merugu Shailaja (37) of Warangal district. The police seized Rs 20,000 cash, three […]
Instruction No. 02/2022-23 (GST-Investigation)
409 ViewsGuidelines is issued by CBIC on 17.08.2022 on arrest and bail in relation to offences punishable under the CGST Act, 2017. Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in its judgment dated August 16, 2021 in Criminal Appeal No. 838 of 2021, arising out of SLP (Crl.) No. 5442/2021, has observed as follows: “We may note […]
GST scam: Two years on, Punjab VB awaits prosecution sanction against 17 officials
245 ViewsDespite numerous reminders in the past two years, the office of the financial commissioner, taxation, is yet to decide on granting prosecution sanction sought by the Punjab vigilance bureau (VB) against 17 excise and taxation officials booked in a multi-crore goods and service tax (GST) scam. The FIR was registered in August 2020 after […]
