look news india
Prayagraj, March 11 (HS). Allahabad High Court refused to give relief to the accused in the GST fraud case of Rs 1000 crore. The court said that the case is related to economic offence. There has been loss to the government treasury. To get to the bottom of such a case, there may be a need to interrogate the accused. Therefore, the case for granting anticipatory bail is not made out.
Justice Samit Gopal gave this order while rejecting the anticipatory bail application of Anshul Goyal. In fact, when Saurabh Dwivedi, a senior journalist of a news portal, wanted to register to form a firm, he came to know that the firm was already registered with his Aadhar card and PAN card. On this, he had lodged an FIR last year in Noida Sector-20 police station under various sections of IPC including fraud and tampering of government papers.
Investigation revealed that the accused, in this way, registered 26 thousand fake firms in GST using someone else's Aadhar card and PAN card and defrauded the central and state governments to the tune of Rs 1,000 crore. It was said on behalf of the petitioner's advocate that he has been falsely implicated. He has no role. There is no match between the statements on the basis of which the police took action.
Whereas, government advocate Nitesh Kumar Srivastava protested. The court said that SIT is investigating the matter. After the FIR, the names of the accused have come out. This is a pan India scam. The tax credit has been availed by the accused in a fraudulent and fraudulent manner. Therefore, the petitioner is not entitled to anticipatory bail.
