Khanna (Ludhiana). The Central Goods and Service Tax (CGST) raided several teams from across Punjab in Khanna on Saturday morning. During this time five people have been caught in the case of tax evasion. These include the AAP leader who contested the Khanna Nagar Council elections last month on an Aam Aadmi Party ticket. According to the department, the members of this gang have done bogus billing of a total of 700 crores.
According to the information, the team of the department raided the locations simultaneously in Khanna between four and half past five in the morning. Five people were arrested during the search operation. The accused were apprehended and taken to the rest house located in the furnaces of the PWD department. After interrogating him there, the five accused were arrested while the two accused are said to be absconding.
In Khanna, new teams from all over Punjab raided several areas of the city simultaneously.
The additional commissioner of the department, Shaukat Ahmed Pere, said that raids were conducted on behalf of the teams. A clue caught some time ago got the clue that bogus GST billing game is going on in Punjab through Delhi. The case was then investigated. It showed that some people sell goods to the furnaces in Mandi Gobindgarh without a bill. After that his bogus billing is done. A total of 700 crore rupees were billed. This caused the department to lose 122 crore. A total of 44 firms were formed by the accused.
Teams from all over Punjab
The team included teams from several districts including Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana, Patiala, Jalandhar, Fatehgarh Sahib. ATC Manjeet Cheema, ETO Aman Gupta, ETO Saurabh Singla, ETO Rudra Mani Sharma, ETO Dr Harpreet Singh, ETO Arvind Sharma, ETO Baldeep Karan Singh, ETO Kamalpreet Singh, ETO Karanvir Singh were leading these 9 teams.
Documents recovered from the accountant’s house
Additional Commissioner Beyond told that during the investigation, he noticed that there was a transaction of Rs 13 crore in the bank account of a person earning Rs 10,000. When it was examined, the layers started to open. Documents have also been recovered from an accountant’s house. The department is trying to crack the CPU. This can lead to major revelations.
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