It was revealed that Sureshbhai G Prajapati had filed a fig of lT Returns successful the sanction of idiosyncratic assessees. Several TDS certificates were besides attached with these Income Tax Returns (ITRs).
The Special Court for CBl cases, Ahmedabad Rural, connected Friday sentenced a mates to imprisonment and slapped a good connected them successful a lawsuit of fake TDS refunds.
The tribunal of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM), astatine the peculiar CBI court, sentenced Suresh G Prajapati, the past Income Tax Practitioner, and his woman Sobhna Suresh Prajapati to 3 years of imprisonment with a full good of Rs 60,000 successful a lawsuit of obtaining refund based connected false/forged TDS (Tax Deducted astatine Source) certificates.
The Central Bureau of Investigation had registered the instant lawsuit connected December 31, 2007, connected allegations that Income Tax (IT) refunds were regularly made from Ward 12(3), Income Tax Office, Narayan Chambers, Ahmedabad, connected the ground of bogus TDS certificates.
It was revealed that Sureshbhai G Prajapati had filed a fig of lT Returns successful the sanction of idiosyncratic assessees. Several TDS certificates were besides attached with these Income Tax Returns (ITRs).
It was ascertained that though these certificates were bogus successful nature, the refunds, to the tune of astir Rs 3.61 lakh, were allowed to beryllium processed from Ward 12 (3) of Ahmedabad, which were misappropriated.
According to a connection from the bureau connected Friday, aft completion of the investigation, CBI filed 2 chargesheets — 1 connected December 31, 2008, and the different connected January 3, 2011.
After the trial, the tribunal recovered the accused blameworthy and sentenced them.