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The
police claim to have seized fake bills books from local
businessmen Mukesh Kumar alias Rinku and Shiv Kumar
Pandey. The police said the bill books had been printed
in the names of some local genuine firms but were being
used illegally by the accused.
Giving
the details of the case, SP (Detective) Gurpreet Singh
Toor said a local hosiery owner Jagan Nath, who runs
Hanuman Hosiery factory in the city, had recently been
questioned by the Sales Tax department for selling goods
worth over Rs 1.20 crore in the last six months but
paying the tax for goods worth Rs 21 lakh only.
These
revelations raised eyebrows of the hosiery owner who
approached the police.
SP
Toor said that while investigating the case, the police
came to know that Mukesh Kumar and Shiv Kumar Pandey
were involved in the evasion of VAT using the fake bill
books of Jagan Nath’s hosiery. SP Toor said that out
of the 18 fake bill books of different firms, seized
from the accused, one bill book is also of Jagan
Nath’s firm.
Toor
said that further investigations were on in this case.
Two
arrested for dodging sales tax
The
police arrested two persons, Ravinder Kumar alias Raju
and Manish Kumar alias Mani, for illegally using the
sales tax numbers of other firms for ferrying their
goods to evade sales tax.
Source
: Indian Express - New Delhi, India, dated
09/10/2008
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